From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions? Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2018 22:02:24 +0200 Message-ID: <83zi50jsmn.fsf@gnu.org> References: <76b1fb81-54c0-c213-a542-dc7b9838c473@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1516996860 29416 195.159.176.226 (26 Jan 2018 20:01:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2018 20:01:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Radon Rosborough Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 26 21:00:55 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1efAAx-0006JS-AK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Jan 2018 21:00:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49809 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1efACx-0005VK-P9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Jan 2018 15:02:43 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49565) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1efACr-0005Ux-H5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jan 2018 15:02:38 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1efACm-0004VE-L9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jan 2018 15:02:37 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:39753) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1efACm-0004V8-HU; Fri, 26 Jan 2018 15:02:32 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1780 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1efACf-0001t6-BH; Fri, 26 Jan 2018 15:02:25 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Radon Rosborough on Fri, 26 Jan 2018 11:24:32 -0800) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:222261 Archived-At: > From: Radon Rosborough > Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2018 11:24:32 -0800 > Cc: emacs-devel > > I think the confusion here is because the Emacs manual currently uses > the term "load" in two incompatible ways. Loading a package means > evaluating its autoloads, while loading a Lisp file means evaluating > the file's Lisp code. Please point out the places in the manual where we use "load" in the former sense. I think those places need to be fixed, because that's not what "load" means in the Emacs context. Thanks.