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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: paul.r.ml@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Feature Request : autoload-form
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 01:49:49 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1JfqQP-00033x-7i@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvzlsi88my.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:20:02 -0400)

    > (autoload foo "bar.el")
    > (autoload-form foo (load-file "bar.el"))

    You could just change autoload to do that.  It's a pretty simple change
    in the C code.

I don't think we should install this in Emacs, though.  Something like
autoload should be kept simple and limited.

If loading a certain file needs load-path to be set a certain way,
the user should simply set load-path that way, perhaps in .emacs.
It is a bad idea to have files that only work right if load-path
is temporarily changed; rather than adding a new file to Emacs
to cope with that situation, it would be better to redesign the
Lisp code that appears to need it.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-03-30  5:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-28 20:05 Feature Request : autoload-form paul r
2008-03-29  4:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-29  9:49   ` paul r
2008-03-29 19:40     ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-30  5:49   ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2008-03-30 11:24     ` paul r
2008-03-30 15:03       ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-30 22:28         ` paul r
2008-03-31  7:58           ` Levin Du
2008-03-30 19:55       ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-30 21:35       ` Mike Mattie
2008-03-31 16:24       ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-31 17:36         ` paul r
2008-03-31 21:31         ` Mike Mattie
2008-04-02  2:53           ` Richard Stallman
2008-04-02 12:44             ` paul r
2008-04-02 17:34               ` Richard Stallman
2008-04-02 19:06                 ` paul r
2008-04-02 21:07                   ` Don Armstrong
2008-04-03  4:30                     ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-04-03  5:01                       ` Don Armstrong

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