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#2061
23.0.60; Add preference to force load of Elisp files when they are newer than corresponding byte-compiled file
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Reported by: Brent Goodrick <bgoodr <at> gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 02:25:04 UTC
Severity: wishlist
Fixed in version 24.4
Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Message #121 received at 2061 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
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On 11 February 2014 16:14, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 12:48:42 +0000
> > From: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>
> >
> > How about: load-el-when-newer (defaults to nil) ?
>
> From etc/NEWS:
>
> ** New option `load-prefer-newer' affects how the `load' function chooses
> the file to load. If this is non-nil, then when both .el and .elc
> versions of a file exist, and the caller did not explicitly specify
> which one to load, then the newer file is loaded. The default, nil,
> means to always load the .elc file.
>
Joy! I'm sorry my timing was bad, in that I looked into this after it had
been committed, but before it had been released. Thanks for the
intelligence.
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http://rrt.sc3d.org
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