nbecker(a)fred.net wrote: Here's a snippet that recently appeared in gnu.emacs.sources. While it works fine for .el files, it probably needs a little tweaking to work with ~/.emacs. -- Darryl Okahata darrylo(a)sr.hp.com DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Hewlett-Packard, or of the little green men that have been following him all day. =============================================================================== From: Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox(a)peorth.gweep.net&gt; Newsgroups: comp.emacs,comp.emacs.xemacs,gnu.emacs.sources Subject: Re: neat little macro to speed up your .emacs files... Date: 20 Apr 1999 09:58:03 -0400 To: gnu-emacs-sources(a)gnu.org * David Bakhash <cadet(a)mit.edu&gt; on Sun, 18 Apr 1999 | Just thought I'd throw this out. This is simpler: ;;; Local Variables: ;;; eval: (defun byte-compile-this-file () (write-region (point-min) (point-max) buffer-file-name nil 't) (byte-compile-file buffer-file-name t) t) ;;; write-file-hooks: (byte-compile-this-file) ;;; End: