From b4928633d8f4fb0638acef78142b08abd866d9d9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tom Willemsen Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 23:23:02 +0100 Subject: Delete blog, move project --- blog/blog-2012-07-27-2119.org | 38 -------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 38 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 blog/blog-2012-07-27-2119.org (limited to 'blog/blog-2012-07-27-2119.org') diff --git a/blog/blog-2012-07-27-2119.org b/blog/blog-2012-07-27-2119.org deleted file mode 100644 index d30e1c7..0000000 --- a/blog/blog-2012-07-27-2119.org +++ /dev/null @@ -1,38 +0,0 @@ -#+TITLE: eval-and-compile - -I'm reading up a little on byte-compilation in [[emacs][GNU Emacs]] and I read -about just exactly a feature that I needed. - -A while ago, I was working on my -init[fn:init:[[http://ryuslash.org/dotfiles/emacs/init.html]]] file, -adding some ~auto-complete~ code since I wanted to try it again. I -noticed that, because ~auto-complete~ is installed through ~package~, it -couldn't load the appropriate files at compile time. - -I know that =package-initialize= should be called before calling or -using any ~package~-installed functions and I have it in my -init[fn:init] file, but this doesn't help at compile time. So, ugly -as I thought it was, I added - -#+begin_src emacs-lisp - (eval-when-compile (package-initialize)) -#+end_src - -just above the call to the ~auto-complete~ functions. I hated having to -do that, I know it's just one line, but its not at all DRY[fn::Don't -Repeat Yourself]. - -Just now, though, I read about =eval-and-compile=, and according to the -documentation in the elisp reference manual, it should do exactly what -I want, eval both when running and when compiling. - -#+begin_src emacs-lisp - (eval-and-compile (package-initialize)) -#+end_src - -I'm currently trying it out, I just tested it once and it seems to -work like a charm. - -/Of course/, this might never have been an issue if I didn't use ~emacs --Q~ to compile my init[fn:init] file, just to speed up loading during -compilation a little bit. -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf