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I'm reading up a little on byte-compilation in
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[GNU Emacs](http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) and I read about just
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exactly a feature that I needed.
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A while ago, I was working on my init<sup><a class="footref"
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name="fnr.1" href="#fn.1">1</a></sup> file, adding some
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`auto-complete` code since I wanted to try it again. I
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noticed that, because `auto-complete` is installed through
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`package`, it couldn't load the appropriate files at
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compile time.
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I know that `package-initialize` should be called before calling or
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using any `package`-installed functions and I have it in my
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init<sup><a class="footref" name="fnr.1.2" href="#fn.1">1</a></sup>
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file, but this doesn't help at compile time. So, ugly as I thought it
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was, I added
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[[!format el """
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(eval-when-compile (package-initialize))
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"""]]
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just above the call to the `auto-complete` functions. I hated having
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to do that, I know it's just one line, but its not at all DRY<sup><a
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class="footref" name="fnr.2" href="#fn.2">2</a></sup>.
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Just now, though, I read about `eval-and-compile`, and according to
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the documentation in the elisp reference manual, it should do exactly
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what I want, eval both when running and when compiling.
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[[!format el """
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(eval-and-compile (package-initialize))
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"""]]
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I'm currently trying it out, I just tested it once and it seems to
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work like a charm.
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*Of course*, this might never have been an issue if I didn't use
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`emacs -Q` to compile my init<sup><a class="footref" name="fnr.1.3"
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href="#fn.1">1</a></sup> file, just to speed up loading during
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compilation a little bit.
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<div id="footnotes">
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<h3 class="footnotes">Footnotes: </h3>
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<div id="text-footnotes">
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<p class="footnote"><sup><a class="footnum" name="fn.1" href="#fnr.1">1</a></sup> <a href="http://ryuslash.org/dotfiles/emacs/init.html">http://ryuslash.org/dotfiles/emacs/init.html</a>
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</p>
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<p class="footnote"><sup><a class="footnum" name="fn.2" href="#fnr.2">2</a></sup> Don't Repeat Yourself
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</p>
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</div>
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</div>
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[[!meta date="2012-07-27 21:19:00"]]
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[[!tag emacs elisp dotfiles coding]]
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