From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reuben Thomas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#7989: 23.2.91; How do I update "local" autoloads? 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Sat, 05 Feb 2011 05:06:17 -0800 (PST) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-Received-From: 64.18.2.172 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 199.232.76.165 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2011 07:58:02 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:43958 Archived-At: It just occurred to me that I should be able to generate autoloads for my per-user site-lisp files. Unfortunately, there=E2=80=99s nothing in eith= er the Emacs or Elisp manual that I can see on how to do this, and the behavior of Emacs is confusing. I store my per-user Elisp files in ~/local/share/emacs/site-lisp, which is of course on my load-path. After browsing about the system a little, the obvious thing seemed to be to run update-directory-autoloads on this directory. This indeed collected all the autoloads from this directory, but did two quite surprising things: 1. It updated all the autoloads, not just the ones for that directory. This seems to contradict the docstring for update-directory-autoloads, which says =E2=80=9CUpdate loaddefs.el with all the current autoloads from DIRS=E2=80=9D, and I had supplied precisely one directory, interactively. 2. It then wrote the resulting loaddefs.el to the source directory for Emacs. This is very clear in the code, in autoload-generated-file, but I=E2=80=99m at a loss to explain it: I can see this is useful while building Emacs, but I can=E2=80=99t see what possible utility it has when using an installed Emacs. Then, there is very little documentation in the Emacs manual. There=E2=80= =99s a bit more detail in the Elisp manual, but I still can=E2=80=99t find anything there about the default loaddefs.el, nor can I find how to change where update-directory-autoloads writes its results, nor in any case where loaddefs.el files are searched for. By examining the layout of the ELPA files in my ~/.emacs.d directory, I can see that it manages to write loaddefs files with different names, one to each downloaded package=E2=80=99s directory, which are presumably lo= aded when I start Emacs, so undoubtedly, there is a way to achieve everything I want, but I just can=E2=80=99t easily find out how (presumably, reading package.el would be a good next step). However, surely it ought to be easier than this for a user simply to generate loaddefs.el files for their own files? Apologies if I=E2=80=99ve missed something obvious; if I haven=E2=80=99t, t= hen I=E2=80=99d be very happy, given an explanation of what I=E2=80=99m supposed to do, to wri= te patches for the Emacs manual and/or relevant docstrings. In GNU Emacs 23.2.91.4 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.22.0) of 2011-01-13 on canta Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10900000 Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: en_GB.UTF-8 value of $XMODIFIERS: nil locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix default enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Emacs-Lisp Minor modes in effect: recentf-mode: t show-paren-mode: t savehist-mode: t minibuffer-electric-default-mode: t iswitchb-mode: t icomplete-mode: t global-whitespace-mode: t global-auto-revert-mode: t desktop-save-mode: t yas/global-mode: t yas/minor-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t column-number-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent input: C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p=20 C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p=20 C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p=20 C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n=20 C-n C-n C-s d i r e c t o r y C-a C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n=20 C-n C-n C-s g e n e r a t e d - f i l e C-a =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 C-a M-x r e p o r t C-g M-x r=20 e p o r t b u g =20 - e m a c s - b u g Recent messages: Wrote /home/rrt/repo/emacs-23/lisp/loaddefs.el Mark set [2 times] Mark saved where search started Quit Type C-x 1 to remove help window.=20=20 Mark saved where search started [3 times] call-interactively: End of buffer [2 times] Quit [2 times] Mark saved where search started [3 times] Quit Load-path shadows: /home/rrt/.emacs.d/elpa/ruby-mode-1.1/ruby-mode hides /usr/share/emacs-snap= shot/site-lisp/ruby1.8-elisp/ruby-mode /home/rrt/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/popup hides /usr/local/share/emacs/23= 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/usr/local/share/emacs/23.2.91/site-lisp/auctex/font-latex hides /usr/share= /emacs/site-lisp/auctex/font-latex /usr/local/share/emacs/23.2.91/site-lisp/auctex/bib-cite hides /usr/share/e= macs/site-lisp/auctex/bib-cite /usr/local/share/emacs/23.2.91/site-lisp/auctex/toolbar-x hides /usr/share/= emacs/site-lisp/auctex/toolbar-x /usr/local/share/emacs/23.2.91/site-lisp/auctex/tex-style hides /usr/share/= emacs/site-lisp/auctex/tex-style Features: (shadow sort mail-extr message sendmail ecomplete rfc822 mml mml-sec password-cache mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mailcap mail-parse rfc2231 rfc2047 rfc2045 qp ietf-drums mailabbrev nnheader gnus-util netrc mm-util mail-prsvr gmm-utils mailheader canlock hashcash mail-utils emacsbug apropos conf-mode newcomment pp multi-isearch jka-compr find-func help-mode view tabify edebug noutline outline time-date vc-bzr sha1 hex-util autoload dired longlines vc-git face-remap filladapt flyspell completing-help recentf tree-widget wid-edit uniquify paren 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