From: Chetan Pandya <pandyacus@sbcglobal.net>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>,
Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Autoloaded defcustoms
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 10:18:29 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <377561.61615.qm@web83201.mail.mud.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e01d8a50901060717u5d032b5cn8939094ad8456c34@mail.gmail.com>
--- On Tue, 1/6/09, Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Yes, but the situation I am talking about is that custom-set-variables
> >>>> have been run before custom-autoload (see my prev message).
> >>>
> >>> That would be a pilot error.
> >>
> >> Yes, but who is the pilot ...?
> >
> > Catch-22 :-)
> >
> >> Or, why not take care of this problem? I have no problem giving more
> >> concrete examples why this can be needed, but do I have to do that?
> >
> > Why do you need to run custom-set-variables before custom-autoload?
>
> This could be during startup of Emacs. There is nothing that says
> custom-set-variables should be the last thing there. (And default.el
> is run afterwards.)
>
> Another situation could be if you are trying out a package. Doing that
> might require that you run a file with its load defs. You may
> customize some variables in that package. The next time you start
> Emacs and try this package again those customized variables
> will be in a mixed state. You can for example get global minor mode
> whose value is t, but that does not work. The people will start
> complaining that the package does not work.
>
> I have seen this happen. Is there any reason not to handle the problem
> the way I suggested?
It looks like when custom-set-variables is written out the load dependency is not part of it. Is there anything else besides that?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-06 18:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-05 18:21 Autoloaded defcustoms Lennart Borgman
2009-01-05 22:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-05 22:22 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-01-06 0:57 ` Juri Linkov
2009-01-06 2:16 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-01-06 3:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-06 12:27 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-01-06 14:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-06 15:00 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-01-06 15:07 ` Juri Linkov
2009-01-06 15:17 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-01-06 18:18 ` Chetan Pandya [this message]
2009-01-06 18:21 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-01-06 18:20 ` Stefan Monnier
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