Re: Is there a way of setting a variable only when it exists?

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2022-03-17, at 21:47, Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text 
editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> wrote:

>> To get .elc which is better, faster byte-code as well as the
>> other advantages of code-improvement that the byte-compiler's
>> messages leads to if you take proper action ...
>
> You can get the warnings messages with `flymake-mode`.  It does run the
> compiler internally but doesn't generate the corresponding `.elc` file.

Interesting!  I use flycheck (though not for Elisp), I might be tempted
to use flymake for Elisp now!  Thanks!

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