From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: "paul r" <paul.r.ml@gmail.com>
Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Feature Request : autoload-form
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:55:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1Jg3d0-0000MB-Nt@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e30f0f320803300424s6215e966v859f8822d054853f@mail.gmail.com> (paul.r.ml@gmail.com)
I think of autoload as a particular case of the general need to
"eval-on-event-then-call".
Looking for the most general way to think of this is not a good
practice.
Please listen to my experience. Features like autoload should be kept
as limited as possible.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-30 19:55 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
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 [this message]
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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