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Re: unload-feature questions and thoughts
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David Kastrup |
Subject: |
Re: unload-feature questions and thoughts |
Date: |
Sun, 04 Feb 2007 20:14:41 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.93 (gnu/linux) |
"Juanma Barranquero" <address@hidden> writes:
> On 2/4/07, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> We had this discussion already. IIRC, load could be used multiple
>> times and in so many contexts, that is was not reasonable to expect it
>> to be undoable.
>
> OTOH, `unload-feature' exists for a reason; and packages that do
> non-standard things (like redefining standard functions) can define
> their own unload functions.
>
> But question 3) was not about unloading, though I mentioned it at the
> end; it was about the difference in the resulting 'autoload property
> of function symbols depending on whether you use the autoloading vs.
> the normal load/require mechanisms.
>
>> Before we coded this hack, there was a discussion on emacs-devel
>> because I had been surprised, too.
>
> Couldn't AUCTeX just define AUCTeX-unload-hook and do whatever it is
> necessary?
It defines tex-site-unload-hook already. But "whatever is necessary"
pretty much means restoring all functions overwritten by AUCTeX, and
there is no point in not using the autoload unloader for that.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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