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From: Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM>
To: Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com>
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Subject: Re: Several minor bugs.
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>>>>> "sb" == Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com> writes:

sb> On the matter of loading bytecompiled .emacs, it seems to work for me.
sb> I've made the attached change.  Is it evil?  Emacs loads .emacs the
sb> same way XEmacs does.

I think the idea is to avoid the novice user shooting h'self in the
foot by byte-compiling .emacs (perhaps from the mode menu) and
forgetting to do it the next time the file is modified.  Also,
debugging .emacs functions is easier if they have not been
byte-compiled (more meaningful backtrace).

One of the biggest problems with X11 is the difficulty of devising an
X resource that changes some application behavior.  While that occurs
for different reasons, we should strive to avoid all causes of such
user frustration.

I vote for keeping the behavior the way Emacs does.

Martin

