From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: "Roland Winkler" <winkler@gnu.org>
Cc: 21563@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21563: 24.5; discourage load-hook variables
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 20:32:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tv4w1poj.fsf@marxist.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <39185.7955.374134.22021@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (Roland Winkler's message of "Fri, 25 Sep 2015 13:57:21 -0500")
"Roland Winkler" <winkler@gnu.org> writes:
> Somewhere in my emacs init file I was setting the variable
> dired-load-hook. (I guess I wrote this code years ago when I did
> not know much about emacs.) Yet suddenly this did not work for me
> anymore, as I had rearranged my init file so that dired got loaded
> before I was setting dired-load-hook. I suggest to discourage the
> usage of any such load-hook variables: I believe eval-after-load is
> considered to be the cleaner alternative: it does not give rise to
> the type of problems I ran into. Also it does not require user
> variables for each package.
>
> (Apropos gives me the variables align-load-hook, cal-menu-load-hook,
> calendar-load-hook, dired-load-hook, ediff-load-hook, and
> table-load-hook. There might be more.)
This suggests that all such variables should be considered obsolete,
since eval-after-load is cleaner. I think I agree, but I have only
ever used eval-after-load so I might be missing something.
I would suggest to declare the above variables obsolete and point
users to eval-after-load instead. Does anyone disagree with that?
Best regards,
Stefan Kangas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-15 19:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-25 18:57 bug#21563: 24.5; discourage load-hook variables Roland Winkler
2020-01-15 19:32 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2020-01-15 20:21 ` Drew Adams
2020-01-15 20:42 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-01-16 0:27 ` Roland Winkler
2020-01-15 22:06 ` Glenn Morris
2020-01-16 0:03 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-01-16 0:24 ` Drew Adams
2020-01-16 0:54 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-01-16 3:56 ` Drew Adams
2020-01-16 13:33 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-01-16 16:15 ` Drew Adams
2020-01-16 20:30 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-01-16 21:08 ` Drew Adams
2020-01-16 0:31 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-04-16 4:14 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-04-16 9:07 ` Roland Winkler
2020-04-26 14:33 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-10-20 17:16 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-01-16 11:49 ` Mauro Aranda
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