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authorRichard M. Stallman2001-02-17 13:52:45 +0000
committerRichard M. Stallman2001-02-17 13:52:45 +0000
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Rewrite discussion of load-dangerous-libraries.
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@@ -652,12 +652,10 @@ That's why @code{load-library} searches for @samp{.elc} files first.
652 652
653@vindex load-dangerous-libraries 653@vindex load-dangerous-libraries
654@cindex Lisp files byte-compiled by XEmacs 654@cindex Lisp files byte-compiled by XEmacs
655 By default, Emacs refuses to load compiled Lisp files which weren't 655 By default, Emacs refuses to load compiled Lisp files which were
656compiled with Emacs. This is because an incompatible change was 656compiled with XEmacs, a modified versions of Emacs---they can cause
657introduced into XEmacs' byte compiler, which could produce files with 657Emacs to crash. Set the variable @code{load-dangerous-libraries} to
658byte codes that cause Emacs to crash. Set the variable 658@code{t} if you want to try loading them.
659@code{load-dangerous-libraries} to t if you want to change this
660behavior.
661 659
662@node Lisp Eval 660@node Lisp Eval
663@section Evaluating Emacs-Lisp Expressions 661@section Evaluating Emacs-Lisp Expressions