From: Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com>
To: Helmut Eller <eller.helmut@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Package initialization
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2015 20:20:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAdUY-KdYOvDTi3_8_n50dKdH7_TiycHSsAYzLGfRgkdf7aR_w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m28uads33s.fsf@gmail.com>
>>> Which seems to suggest that one should write some
>>> ;;;###autoload (progn ...)
>>> somewhere that does the initialization. Is this the way it should be
>>> done?
>>
>> Yes, that line can be added to any of the package's “.el” files.
>
> The question was not if it works; the question was if this is considered
> good style.
As long as these autoload cookies are restricted to autoloading
commands and functions or running some very essential code (like
adding a theme to custom-theme-load-path, or adding a mode entry to
auto-mode-alist), then yes, it's good style.
> Frankly, I think this is very ugly because I can no longer
> load the foo-auotload.el file
Why would you load the file manually? It gets loaded for you.
Or are you complaining about the fact that it gets loaded
automatically? (you can disable that)
> without clobbering global variables.
Autoload cookies should not go around changing any global variable.
For instance, they should not change the fill-column or the
default-input-method. But it makes sense for them to change some
variables, like the auto-mode-alist or the custom-theme-load-path.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-18 19:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-18 15:56 Package initialization Helmut Eller
2015-07-18 17:16 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-07-18 19:00 ` Helmut Eller
2015-07-18 19:20 ` Artur Malabarba [this message]
2015-07-18 22:56 ` Helmut Eller
2015-07-18 23:07 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-07-18 23:29 ` Helmut Eller
2015-07-18 23:48 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-07-19 0:13 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-07-19 7:23 ` Helmut Eller
2015-07-19 8:10 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-07-19 9:58 ` Helmut Eller
2015-07-19 10:07 ` David Kastrup
2015-07-19 10:11 ` Helmut Eller
2015-07-19 10:27 ` David Kastrup
2015-07-19 10:33 ` Helmut Eller
2015-07-19 10:38 ` David Kastrup
2015-07-19 10:41 ` Helmut Eller
2015-07-19 10:51 ` David Kastrup
2015-07-19 10:11 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-07-19 10:14 ` Helmut Eller
2015-07-19 10:35 ` bruce.connor.am
2015-07-19 10:48 ` Helmut Eller
2015-07-19 11:35 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-07-19 10:54 ` David Kastrup
2015-07-19 11:34 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-07-19 12:09 ` David Kastrup
2015-07-19 12:33 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-07-19 16:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-07-19 15:52 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-07-19 16:37 ` Helmut Eller
2015-07-20 1:30 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-07-20 17:01 ` Helmut Eller
2015-07-20 17:25 ` Chad Brown
2015-07-20 18:12 ` Helmut Eller
2015-07-20 19:09 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-07-20 20:54 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-07-21 5:59 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-07-21 6:40 ` Helmut Eller
2015-07-25 4:42 ` Alexis
2015-07-19 16:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-07-20 0:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-07-20 16:33 ` Helmut Eller
2015-07-20 22:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-07-21 5:53 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-07-21 6:45 ` David Kastrup
2015-07-21 6:05 ` Helmut Eller
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