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eval-and-compile
I'm reading up a little on byte-compilation in GNU Emacs and I read about just exactly a feature that I needed.
A while ago, I was working on my
init1]] 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
init1 file, but this doesn't help at compile time. So, ugly
as I thought it was, I added
(eval-when-compile (package-initialize))
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.
(eval-and-compile (package-initialize))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 init1 file, just to speed up loading during
compilation a little bit.