From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Robert Weiner <rswgnu@gmail.com>
Cc: 23638@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23638: "load" should use directory from load-file-name as a final fallback
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2021 14:14:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <875z346mvb.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+OMD9hJuFZ+au2p2CPWMADS_xYjY3Gy--tW_uugqhZoX3UEkA@mail.gmail.com> (Robert Weiner's message of "Sat, 28 May 2016 10:33:20 -0400")
Robert Weiner <rswgnu@gmail.com> writes:
> The "load" function could do more of the right thing in the case where
> an absolute path is given in a load call and then within the file
> loaded, require or load references are made to relative files whose
> directories are not in load path but the files do exist within the
> directory specified by the original load.
It's an interesting idea, and I guess it's pretty trivial to implement?
That is, if `load' is called with an absolute path, then bind
`load-path' and add the directory to the value locally.
It sounds convenient, but also kinda chaotic -- if I load "/tmp/foo.el",
then I may not want to load anything else from "/tmp/" just because
"/tmp/foo.el" says "(require 'bar)". That is, it sounds kinda insecure.
There's also the issue of being consistent -- today,
'(load "/tmp/foo.el")' and `C-x C-f /tmp/foo.el RET' and then
`eval-buffer' gives the same result... but this wouldn't be the case if
we changed `load' this way.
Now, we could add a new command `load-file-with-directory' or something
that would do this -- that would be more clear, at least, that we're
playing games with `load-path', and would be almost as convenient as if
`load' did this itself.
Any opinions here?
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-07 13:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-28 14:33 bug#23638: "load" should use directory from load-file-name as a final fallback Robert Weiner
2016-05-28 14:49 ` bug#23638: Someone thought relative file loading was enough of a problem, he wrote a whole package for it Robert Weiner
2021-02-07 13:14 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2022-05-08 12:22 ` bug#23638: "load" should use directory from load-file-name as a final fallback Lars Ingebrigtsen
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