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| -rw-r--r-- | lisp/emacs-lisp/bytecomp.el | 9 |
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diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/bytecomp.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/bytecomp.el index 6dcd4c6846a..40b4e2f4671 100644 --- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/bytecomp.el +++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/bytecomp.el @@ -5091,8 +5091,15 @@ it won't work in an interactive Emacs." "Run `byte-compile-file' on the files remaining on the command line. Use this from the command line, with `-batch'; it won't work in an interactive Emacs. -Each file is processed even if an error occurred previously. + +Each file is processed even if an error occurred previously. If +a file name denotes a directory, all Emacs Lisp source files in +that directory (that have previously been compiled) will be +recompiled if newer than the compiled files. In this case, +NOFORCE is ignored. + For example, invoke \"emacs -batch -f batch-byte-compile $emacs/ ~/*.el\". + If NOFORCE is non-nil, don't recompile a file that seems to be already up-to-date." ;; command-line-args-left is what is left of the command line, from |