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From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Preloading xwidget.el on xwidget builds?
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2021 12:41:43 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o85hma9k.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvfsqtmao9.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Wed, 15 Dec 2021 23:33:58 -0500")

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> xwidget.el defines various parts of the internal xwidget machinery, such
>> as the `xwidget-event' handler, and pieces of Lisp code that keep
>> xwidget display working correctly.
>>
>> Using xwidget-related C functions without xwidget.el loaded can lead to
>> crashes and display problems, so I propose to preload that file on
>> xwidget builds.
>
> IME files that are preloaded in some config and not on others are
> a source of trouble.  I'd rather we fix this some other way, e.g. by
> autoloading those function.

How would autoloading solve that problem though: `make-xwidget' and such
are defined in C code, but their display depends on xwidget.el to work
correctly.

Thanks.



  reply	other threads:[~2021-12-16  4:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <87v8zpml5d.fsf.ref@yahoo.com>
2021-12-16  0:46 ` Preloading xwidget.el on xwidget builds? Po Lu
2021-12-16  4:33   ` Stefan Monnier
2021-12-16  4:41     ` Po Lu [this message]
2021-12-16  4:50       ` Stefan Monnier
2021-12-16  4:51         ` Stefan Monnier
2021-12-16  4:52           ` Po Lu
2021-12-16  5:06             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-16  5:10               ` Po Lu
2021-12-16  5:46                 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-16  7:46       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-16  7:54         ` Po Lu
2021-12-16  7:39   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-16  7:47     ` Po Lu

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