From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org,Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 012487b: * lisp/display-line-numbers.el (display-line-numbers-type): Autoload it.
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 08:18:30 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <A7BC35AA-6EFB-4CFF-B95E-C9A7716B8133@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvr2x5p5fl.fsf-monnier+Inbox@gnu.org>
On July 25, 2017 6:22:32 AM GMT+03:00, Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA> wrote:
> > We are miscommunicating. By "the problem" I meant the reason(s) why
> > autoloading a defcustom should be considered undesirable, and by
> > "proposed solutions" the alternatives for making sure a defcustom'd
> > variable is defined when it is needed.
>
> There is no need for the variable to be defined in order to `setq' it,
> which is why a simple (defvar foo) is sufficient here.
>
>
> Stefan
This is not what I asked about. I asked why autoloading defcustoms is
"considered harmful". If it isn't, then there's nothing wrong with the
original code as pushed.
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2017-07-23 13:28 ` [Emacs-diffs] master 012487b: * lisp/display-line-numbers.el (display-line-numbers-type): Autoload it Stefan Monnier
2017-07-23 14:02 ` Michael Albinus
2017-07-24 16:57 ` Glenn Morris
2017-07-24 17:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-24 17:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-07-24 18:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-24 18:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-07-24 18:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-24 20:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-07-24 18:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-07-24 18:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-24 20:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-07-25 2:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-25 3:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-07-25 5:18 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-07-25 7:37 ` Michael Albinus
2017-07-25 13:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-07-26 16:54 ` Glenn Morris
2017-07-26 18:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-24 17:26 ` Michael Albinus
2017-07-24 17:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-07-24 17:34 ` Michael Albinus
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