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From: Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
To: Qiantan Hong <qhong@mit.edu>
Cc: "emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Question: loading code when two packages are load?
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2021 16:44:35 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sfyeivy4.fsf@red-bean.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D592407F-CAE5-42F0-9478-6B8B8F2352FA@mit.edu> (Qiantan Hong's message of "Wed, 8 Sep 2021 16:06:37 +0000")

On 08 Sep 2021, Qiantan Hong wrote:
>I’ve been working on the integration of crdt.el with a few other 
>packages (xscheme.el, comint.el).
>Those code only make sense when both crdt.el and the “client” 
>package are loaded.
>
>Is there a way to lazy load those code?
>
>Currently I (require *client-package*) in crdt.el but that causes 
>all client package to be loaded
>when crdt.el is loaded.
>Or I could remove the require but then that leaves bunch of free 
>variable warnings
>(because client package haven’t been loaded) and bunch of command 
>that is
>invokable but not usable.

Would the "autoload" facility solve this problem?

See the section "Autoload" in the Elisp manual:

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Autoload.html#Autoload

and this introduction:

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/eintr/Autoload.html

Best regards,
-Karl



      parent reply	other threads:[~2021-09-08 21:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-08 16:06 Question: loading code when two packages are load? Qiantan Hong
2021-09-08 20:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-09-09  2:05   ` Qiantan Hong
2021-09-09  3:31     ` Stefan Monnier
2021-09-09  4:25     ` Karl Fogel
2021-09-08 21:44 ` Karl Fogel [this message]

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