From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What constitutes a "function-defining form" Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 19:05:54 +0200 Message-ID: <48DE67F2.4050403@gmail.com> References: <48DE5C17.8090509@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1222535177 3426 80.91.229.12 (27 Sep 2008 17:06:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 17:06:17 +0000 (UTC) To: Emacs Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 27 19:07:15 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KjdGF-0002sB-3w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 19:07:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41119 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KjdFC-0000K9-Ok for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 13:06:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KjdF8-0000IK-OH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 13:06:06 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KjdF6-0000Ge-Gx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 13:06:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34286 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KjdF6-0000GP-AG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 13:06:04 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]:35505) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KjdF5-0001zK-Sd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 13:06:04 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-151-87.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.151.87]:61017 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1KjdF1-00027O-6G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 19:06:02 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <48DE5C17.8090509@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080926-0, 2008-09-26), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.151.87 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1KjdF1-00027O-6G. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1KjdF1-00027O-6G 81752dbc253ed005282154cf33d27b52 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) 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:104195 Archived-At: Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote: > I tried to use update-file-autoloads on some functions defined with a > defmacro, but then the whole defmacro got copied. > > I think I need to know what a "function-defining form" is: > > (info "(elisp) Autoload") > > Can someone explain that? ... I think I found it. It seems to be a list in `make-autoload' -- a hard-coded list. There is of course good reasons for that beeing hard-coded, but it would be nice if make-autoload called a hook at the end when nothing did match.