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Re: Defcustoms, how do users find them?
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Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
Re: Defcustoms, how do users find them? |
Date: |
Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:57:47 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
>> ** Remove unnecessary autoload cookies from defcustoms.
>> This needs a bit of care, since often people have become used to
>> expecting such variables to always be defined, eg when they modify
>> things in their .emacs.
>>
>> I'm not sure what does mean "This needs a bit of care"?
>
> I had in mind situations like bug#2150. Sometimes people have got used
> to doing things like:
>
> (setq foo-var (concat "more-foo\\|" foo-var))
>
> or
>
> (add-to-list 'foo-var "more-foo")
>
> ie assuming foo-var is bound before foo-mode is loaded. There's no
> compatible way to change such things to being non-autoloaded, nor is
> there a way to warn "this won't be autoloaded in future".
So there is "no way back" and removing autoload will cause another
bug report about failures in ~/.emacs that customizes that option.
Then I don't how to fix bugs like bug#4387.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
- Re: Defcustoms, how do users find them?, (continued)
- Re: Defcustoms, how do users find them?, Stefan Monnier, 2009/11/18
- Re: Defcustoms, how do users find them?, Lennart Borgman, 2009/11/26
- Re: Defcustoms, how do users find them?, Lennart Borgman, 2009/11/26
- Re: Defcustoms, how do users find them?, Stefan Monnier, 2009/11/26
- Re: Defcustoms, how do users find them?, Lennart Borgman, 2009/11/26
- Re: Defcustoms, how do users find them?, Stefan Monnier, 2009/11/26
- Re: Defcustoms, how do users find them?, Lennart Borgman, 2009/11/26
- Re: Defcustoms, how do users find them?, Stefan Monnier, 2009/11/26
Re: Defcustoms, how do users find them?, Juri Linkov, 2009/11/17
RE: Defcustoms, how do users find them?, Drew Adams, 2009/11/17