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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Stefan Monnier'" <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
	"'Lawrence Mitchell'" <wence@gmx.li>
Cc: 10868@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#10868: 24.0.93; `comment-style' needs to be explained
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 07:35:21 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <FBFAEB19BAFB46CFBA324C1CF7D65F31@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv1upltygb.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>

> > OK, here's the problem, and here's a patch.
> > 2012-02-23  Lawrence Mitchell <wence@gmx.li>
> > * lisp/newcomment.el: Autoload comment-styles (Bug#3370).
> 
> Another fix is to remove the ;;;###autoload from comment-style.
> If that doesn't introduce other problems, it's a better solution.
> 
> Of course, yet another solution is to preload newcomment.el (an option
> that was rejected back when newcomment.el was introduced into 
> Emacs-21).

FWIW, I believe I'm OK with any of the 3 proposed solutions.
Haven't thought about it much, but they all seem OK.

Typically, Stefan, you do not like `;;;##autoload' cookies for user options (at
least this has been argued before).  Is there a reason here why you might prefer
one of the other solutions?  What "other problems" are you thinking of?






  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-23 15:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-22 17:17 bug#10868: 24.0.93; `comment-style' needs to be explained Drew Adams
2012-02-22 17:38 ` Glenn Morris
2012-02-22 18:06   ` Drew Adams
2012-02-22 18:11     ` Glenn Morris
2012-02-22 19:01       ` Drew Adams
2012-02-23  9:22         ` Lawrence Mitchell
2012-02-23 14:31           ` Stefan Monnier
2012-02-23 15:35             ` Drew Adams [this message]
2012-02-23 16:04               ` Stefan Monnier
2012-02-23 16:13                 ` Drew Adams
2012-02-25  3:08             ` Chong Yidong
2012-02-23 17:16           ` Glenn Morris
2012-02-23 17:22             ` Glenn Morris
2012-02-23 17:24             ` Lawrence Mitchell
2012-02-23 17:34             ` Drew Adams

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