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From: arc1@ukc.ac.uk (A.R.Curtis)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: Re: difficulties with lisp
Message-ID: <2109@harrier.ukc.ac.uk>
Date: 18 Aug 89 13:12:47 GMT
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In article <8908172214.AA15126@dsys.ncsl.nist.gov> rbj@DSYS.NCSL.NIST.GOV (Root Boy Jim) writes:

>
>? 2. The byte compiler is better in this respect because it seems to
>? display the names of successful defvars and defuns . Unfortunately
>? they appear in the minibuffer too fast for me to read them. Please
>? is there any way to recover error messages from the minibuffer?
>
>Someone posted some code once to save the messages in a ring buffer.
>

You can always use batch mode to byte-compile within a shell.

E.g.

       emacs -batch -f batch-byte-compile elispfile.el

and then it's much easier to follow what is going on.

Tony Curtis