From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luc Teirlinck Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: custom-set-variables fails to set variable Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 22:41:19 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <200511120441.jAC4fJI25860@raven.dms.auburn.edu> References: <11859.1131656026@olgas.newt.com> <87lkzwxduk.fsf@olgas.newt.com> <200511110043.jAB0hhc17895@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1131770564 13077 80.91.229.2 (12 Nov 2005 04:42:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 04:42:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: p.galbraith@globetrotter.net, wohler@newt.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 12 05:42:42 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EanDU-0005v5-Ck for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 05:42:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EanDT-0007P3-Rg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 23:42:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EanDL-0007Oy-K9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 23:42:07 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EanDK-0007Ol-5p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 23:42:07 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EanDK-0007Oi-22 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 23:42:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [131.204.53.104] (helo=manatee.dms.auburn.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EanDJ-00010d-GS; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 23:42:05 -0500 Original-Received: from raven.dms.auburn.edu (raven.dms.auburn.edu [131.204.53.29]) by manatee.dms.auburn.edu (8.13.3+Sun/8.13.3) with ESMTP id jAC4ffnM015459; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 22:41:41 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (from teirllm@localhost) by raven.dms.auburn.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id jAC4fJI25860; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 22:41:19 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: raven.dms.auburn.edu: teirllm set sender to teirllm@dms.auburn.edu using -f Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-reply-to: (rms@gnu.org) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.1 (manatee.dms.auburn.edu [131.204.53.104]); Fri, 11 Nov 2005 22:41:41 -0600 (CST) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:45799 Archived-At: Richard Stallman wrote: A more automatic solution could be: define-derived-mode could automatically produce an autoload definition of the defvar. That would solve the problem, right? It is not normal for update-file-autoloads to generate an autoload with no autoload cookie, but we could do that. Unless I am confused, this also has the disadvantage that it is not going to work for uses of define-minor-mode in third party packages. Sincerely, Luc.