From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Sebastien Vauban" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: why alias man to woman doesn't work? Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2012 09:38:51 +0200 Organization: Sebastien Vauban Message-ID: <80k41u4ohg.fsf@somewhere.org> References: <4fcd7e17-e3a4-4b35-80ca-ad71da1df9d5@pg2g2000pbb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1333611620 8935 80.91.229.3 (5 Apr 2012 07:40:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012 07:40:20 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Thu Apr 05 09:40:19 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SFhIn-0004rA-RI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2012 09:40:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55021 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SFhIk-0005VQ-8N for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2012 03:40:14 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Original-Lines: 38 Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="No+jx9xcG75RY5G9Zb0asg"; logging-data="10391"; mail-complaints-to="abuse-VVbKFVtnif8H+i2N2EyTrmui9UKz+5OX@public.gmane.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18QqsilJ6KehGflgNY0BiIA" User-Agent: Gnus/5.130004 (Ma Gnus v0.4) Emacs/24.0.94 (windows-nt) X-Archive: encrypt Cancel-Lock: sha1:7GLJlGdQffm9pReUAT5jLfqMyEE= sha1:kdgmGFNpZtch3rtCNn6yYAwP2oI= X-Url: Under construction... Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:191923 comp.emacs:102383 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:84339 Archived-At: Hi Stefan, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> why doesn't alias man to woman work? >> i have this alias: > >> (defalias 'man 'woman) > >> but it still calls man when M-x on man. > > Good question. The technical reason is that woman.el begins with > (require 'man), so when you do M-x man, it autoloads `woman', which > loads `man', which redefines `man' thus overwriting your defalias. > > So you have to do > > (defalias 'man 'woman) > (eval-after-load 'woman '(defalias 'man 'woman)) > > to get what you want, Do I understand correctly that the above code will load `woman' when being parsed, while: (eval-after-load "woman" '(defalias 'man 'woman)) would wait until woman was invoked by some other command? If yes, for performance reasons, one should prefer the latter writing, in order to have a quicker startup time of Emacs, right? Just wanna be sure I correctly understood (or not!) this part... Best regards, Seb -- Sebastien Vauban