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.ELC file extension - Compiled ELISP source code
What is elc file? How to open elc files?
File type specification:
The elc file extension is associated with the ELISP (Emacs Lisp) a dialect of LISP programming language.
The elc file stores compiled source code written in ELISP.
One other aspect of interpreting: the Lisp interpreter is able to interpret two kinds of entity: humanly readable code, on which we will focus exclusively, and specially processed code, called byte compiled code, which is not humanly readable. Byte compiled code runs faster than humanly readable code.
You can transform humanly readable code into byte compiled code by running one of the compile commands such as byte-compile-file. Byte compiled code is usually stored in a file that ends with a .elc extension rather than a .el extension. You will see both kinds of file in the emacs/lisp directory.
Mime types:
application/x-bytecode.elisp
application/x-elc
The default software associated to open elc file:
Company or developer:
Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GNU Emacs is a popular, extensible and highly customizable text editor for Linux.
List of software applications associated to the .elc file extension
Recommended software programs are sorted by OS platform (Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android etc.)
and possible program actions that can be done with the file: like open elc file, edit elc file, convert elc file, view elc file, play elc file etc. (if exist software for corresponding action in File-Extensions.org's database).
Hint:
Click on the tab below to simply browse between the application actions, to quickly get a list of recommended software, which is able to perform the specified software action, such as opening, editing or converting elc files.
Software that open elc file - Compiled ELISP source code
Programs supporting the exension elc on the main platforms Windows, Mac, Linux or mobile. Click on the link to get more information about GNU Emacs for open elc file action.
