Turn on load-ignore-out-of-date-elc-files by default?

Ben Wing ben at 666.com
Tue Dec 7 19:25:29 EST 2004


> Is there a setting that will "warn about the outdated .elc, 
> and then load the more-current .el", so you realize you have 
> an issue?  You're a lot more likely to re-byte-compile the 
> offender if you actually know it's an offender....
> 
> Or does the proposed setting do that?

It depends on how you define "warn".  This setting causes a message to be
issued of the form

Loading foo.el ... (foo.elc is out-of-date)

But it doesn't use the `warn' mechanism, which would cause the *Warnings*
buffer to be displayed,
With a more obvious warning appearing.





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