From: "Elias Mårtenson" <lokedhs@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com>,
emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: defcustom problem with packages (user error?)
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 21:03:09 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADtN0W+odJ2Dwj83Gn4CTU1j6BBovdsvb5Ynt47phjTxzaWxJg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwva93w8ooa.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
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On 12 November 2014 22:45, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> > I'm not sure if that's the cause of your problem, but you don't need to
> > autoload all those defcustom s.
> > Just autoload the entry functions.
>
> Oh, indeed, autoloading variables is generally a bad idea. And it could
> explain the behavior. I haven't seen such problem until now, but it's
> probably because such autoloads are rare. So maybe we should document
> it more prominently.
>
Thank you. I made this change and indeed now it works better.
That said, if it's not a good idea to autoload customisable variables, then
what is the purpose of `custom-autoload'? This is what gets inserted into
gnu-apl-mode-autoloads.el.
Regards,
Elias
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-12 5:22 defcustom problem with packages (user error?) Elias Mårtenson
2014-11-12 13:20 ` Artur Malabarba
2014-11-12 14:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-13 13:03 ` Elias Mårtenson [this message]
2014-11-13 17:40 ` Stefan Monnier
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