Re: byte-compiling .emacs (was: how can I tell emacs to treat a text file as html?)

[Phillip Lord]

>>>>> "Joe" == Joe Corneli <jcorneli@math.utexas.edu> writes:

  Joe>    On Sun, Apr 10 2005, Joe Corneli <jcorneli@math.utexas.edu>
  Joe>    wrote:

  >> But, note, what you should really do is byte compile the .emacs,

  Joe>    Why?  Typically this isn't worth the trouble ("Changes is my
  Joe>    .emacs are ignored!!!1 What's wrong???ß").


  Joe> OK, I guess I was wrong.  I personally always byte compile mine
  Joe> b/c otherwise emacs complains that the source file is newer.
  Joe> Other people might not have that problem :).  But perhaps I'm
  Joe> the one who should change...

If you don't byte-compile it at all, then it won't. 

I think that there is an auto recompile package out there somewhere. 
I never compiled my .emacs or subsidiary files myself. I doubt that it
makes that much difference. 

Phil