Re: Can we add a function which is used to returned immediately within an source file for lib?

[Yiyi Hu]

IMHO,
It won't be easily done without touching the c source for the load
function to quit directly.

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 5:04 AM, Kevin Rodgers
<kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yiyi Hu wrote:
>>
>> Can we add a function or extend (return t) to skip loading the rest of
>> source please?
>>
>> Eg, my ~/.emacs
>>
>> (defun byte-compile-file-if-newer (src)
>>  (let ((result (concat src ".elc")))
>>   (when (file-newer-than-file-p src result)
>>     (byte-compile-file src)
>>     (load-file result))))
>>
>> (byte-compile-file-if-newer "~/.emacs")
>>
>> (custom-set-variables
>>  ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom.
>>  ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
>>  ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
>>  ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
>>  '(auto-compression-mode t)
>>  '(column-number-mode t)
>>  '(cperl-indent-level 4)
>>  '(delete-selection-mode t)
>>  '(display-battery-mode t)
>>  '(display-time-24hr-format t)
>>  '(display-time-day-and-date t)
>>  '(display-time-mode t)
>>  '(encoded-kbd-mode t)
>>  '(gnus-nntp-server "news.readfreenews.net")
>>  '(indent-tabs-mode nil)
>>  '(inferior-lisp-program "sbcl")
>>  '(inhibit-eol-conversion t)
>>  '(inhibit-startup-screen t)
>>  '(initial-scratch-message nil)
>>  '(menu-bar-mode nil)
>>  '(mouse-avoidance-mode (quote exile) nil (avoid)))
>>
>> For now, there is now way to support skip the rest of ~/.emacs after
>> (byte-compile-file-if-newer "~/.emacs").
>
> Yes, it might be convenient if the load function established a tag that
> you could throw to, or if some higher level interface to load did so
> e.g. the inner lambda form in command-line (startup.el).
>
> --
> Kevin Rodgers
> Denver, Colorado, USA
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