From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Helmut Eller <eller.helmut@gmail.com>,
Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com>,
emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Package initialization
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 14:53:32 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <21933.56924.106866.159473@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvio9empqz.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
Stefan Monnier writes:
> >> The important aspect is that it should be possible to install a package
> >> without using it, so the autoloads file should only set things up so
> >> that they *can* be used, but not so that they're automatically used
> >> without being explicitly requested.
[...]
> > It also seems to me that there is a certain conflict between what you
> > say and this from the manual:
>
> > These autoload definitions are saved to a file named
> > ‘NAME-autoloads.el’ in the content directory. They are typically used
> > to autoload the principal user commands defined in the package, but
> > they can also perform other tasks, such as adding an element to
> > ‘auto-mode-alist’.
>
> I don't see a conflict there. Opening a file with the particular
> extension counts as an "explicit request".
For a major mode, usually[1], for a minor mode (as slime-mode is),
rarely[2]. IMHO YMMV etc.
Footnotes:
[1] Unfortunately overloaded extensions are hardly uncommon.
[2] Of course, .gz invoking a decompressor is unlikely to bother very
many people. Nevertheless, in XEmacs we decided it should not be
enabled via autoloads. FWIW, of course.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-21 5:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-18 15:56 Package initialization Helmut Eller
2015-07-18 17:16 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-07-18 19:00 ` Helmut Eller
2015-07-18 19:20 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-07-18 22:56 ` Helmut Eller
2015-07-18 23:07 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-07-18 23:29 ` Helmut Eller
2015-07-18 23:48 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-07-19 0:13 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-07-19 7:23 ` Helmut Eller
2015-07-19 8:10 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-07-19 9:58 ` Helmut Eller
2015-07-19 10:07 ` David Kastrup
2015-07-19 10:11 ` Helmut Eller
2015-07-19 10:27 ` David Kastrup
2015-07-19 10:33 ` Helmut Eller
2015-07-19 10:38 ` David Kastrup
2015-07-19 10:41 ` Helmut Eller
2015-07-19 10:51 ` David Kastrup
2015-07-19 10:11 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-07-19 10:14 ` Helmut Eller
2015-07-19 10:35 ` bruce.connor.am
2015-07-19 10:48 ` Helmut Eller
2015-07-19 11:35 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-07-19 10:54 ` David Kastrup
2015-07-19 11:34 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-07-19 12:09 ` David Kastrup
2015-07-19 12:33 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-07-19 16:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-07-19 15:52 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-07-19 16:37 ` Helmut Eller
2015-07-20 1:30 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-07-20 17:01 ` Helmut Eller
2015-07-20 17:25 ` Chad Brown
2015-07-20 18:12 ` Helmut Eller
2015-07-20 19:09 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-07-20 20:54 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-07-21 5:59 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-07-21 6:40 ` Helmut Eller
2015-07-25 4:42 ` Alexis
2015-07-19 16:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-07-20 0:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-07-20 16:33 ` Helmut Eller
2015-07-20 22:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-07-21 5:53 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2015-07-21 6:45 ` David Kastrup
2015-07-21 6:05 ` Helmut Eller
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