From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: add-hook versus custom-set-variables
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 17:25:59 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bqyyxlzs.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87psne489j.fsf@olgas.newt.com> (Bill Wohler's message of "Fri, 30 Dec 2005 12:52:56 -0800")
>> eval-after-load is a function, not a macro. I know it's counter
>> intuitive.
> Perhaps the docstring and manual for eval-after-load should highlight
> this pitfall. Maybe it should mention that its form is evaluated
> immediately and that the form should be quoted to get expected
> behavior.
Better would be to kill the beast and replace it with a macro.
Sadly, keeping the same name is not an option for backward
compatibility reasons.
Maybe we could introduce a new macro `do-after-load' or `after-load' or
`eval-after'?
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-30 22:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-28 23:05 add-hook versus custom-set-variables Bill Wohler
2005-12-29 3:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-12-29 7:44 ` Bill Wohler
2005-12-29 16:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-12-29 10:05 ` Bill Wohler
2005-12-29 19:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-12-30 5:37 ` Tomas Zerolo
2005-12-30 20:52 ` Bill Wohler
2005-12-30 22:25 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2005-12-31 19:36 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-31 19:47 ` David Kastrup
2005-12-31 21:00 ` Chong Yidong
2005-12-31 21:26 ` David Kastrup
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