From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Autoload and relative file names Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:11:44 +0200 Message-ID: <48DE5B40.8020400@gmail.com> References: <48DE4AF3.9060307@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1222532218 27476 80.91.229.12 (27 Sep 2008 16:16:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 16:16:58 +0000 (UTC) To: Emacs Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 27 18:17:56 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KjcUW-000233-0O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:17:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57994 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KjcTT-0002Zv-9h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 12:16:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KjcOa-0008EX-K3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 12:11:48 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KjcOZ-0008EB-PK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 12:11:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=32905 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KjcOZ-0008Dx-CU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 12:11:47 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]:52935) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KjcOZ-0007eg-2v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 12:11:47 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-151-87.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.151.87]:61973 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1KjcOX-0001rq-6q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:11:45 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <48DE4AF3.9060307@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080926-0, 2008-09-26), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.151.87 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1KjcOX-0001rq-6q. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1KjcOX-0001rq-6q 5129cbd508a1c0a5fbd2ff0a37888af8 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:104191 Archived-At: Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote: > The function that generates autoload, autoload-generate-file-autoloads, > enters just the file name without extension in the generated autoloads. > > This means that the file with the autoloaded functions must be in > load-path. This is not always what is desired. > > The function `load' (that I assume does the loading later) can use file > names that are relative to any entry in `load-path'. I think it would be > quite useful to be able to generate the autoload section such that it > uses a file name relative to load-path. This could be done by adding a > new parameter, the directory to make the relative file name against. ... but it is much easier to change autoload-file-load-name which I have just adviced ...