From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 07:05:14 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <877hbuq9ol.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1300623019 15588 80.91.229.12 (20 Mar 2011 12:10:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 12:10:19 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 20 13:10:14 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q1HSX-0000Rk-SD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2011 13:10:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58900 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q1HSX-0005xN-BI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2011 08:10:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=41027 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q1HSS-0005xF-98 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2011 08:10:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q1HSR-0004vc-12 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2011 08:10:08 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:33805) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q1HSQ-0004vA-L9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2011 08:10:06 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q1HSP-0000OD-A6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2011 13:10:05 +0100 Original-Received: from c-67-186-102-106.hsd1.il.comcast.net ([67.186.102.106]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 20 Mar 2011 13:10:05 +0100 Original-Received: from tzz by c-67-186-102-106.hsd1.il.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 20 Mar 2011 13:10:05 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-186-102-106.hsd1.il.comcast.net X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110016 (No Gnus v0.16) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ek/rLQoMo7kCoJvF+M1h+Y9SfTw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 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:137451 Archived-At: On Sat, 19 Mar 2011 22:58:15 -0400 Stefan Monnier wrote: >> 1. Each of the defcustom items now has a require property. >> The main benefit of this is that a user may now simply place >> load-dir.el in their load path, use M-x load-library to load >> 'load-dir' and then do a M-x customize-group to customize the >> 'load-dir' group, customize load-dirs, and restart Emacs. There is >> no need to also manually edit their .emacs file to add a '(require >> 'load-dir)' in order to actually cause Emacs to load load-dir.el. SM> If it's meant as an ELPA package, this is unneeded, since just SM> installing the package can cause installation of some autoloads. SM> This is important because the use of :require in defcustoms is generally SM> discouraged (it places the feature name (i.e. the file name) into the SM> user's custom-file, so if the feature gets moved to another file or of SM> the file gets renamed, previous cutomizations tend to signals errors SM> about not finding the old file name). OK, I've taken those requires out of my version. Is it possible to put it in the ELPA branch? Ted