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

[Jean Louis]

* Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor 
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> [2022-03-17 21:59]:
> Marcin Borkowski wrote:
> 
> >> If that happens, compiling your init.el will then normally
> >> give you an "assignment to free variable" warning, no?
> >
> > I didn't think about it. OTOH, why would I compile my
> > init.el?
> 
> 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 ...
> 
> This has been mentioned many times over the years here not the
> least ...

It's going to be over the years not easily understood. Maybe Emacs
need some better "warning" or instructions how to initiate byte
compiling.

-- 
Jean

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