From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: paul.r.ml@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Feature Request : autoload-form
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 01:49:49 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1JfqQP-00033x-7i@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvzlsi88my.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:20:02 -0400)
> (autoload foo "bar.el")
> (autoload-form foo (load-file "bar.el"))
You could just change autoload to do that. It's a pretty simple change
in the C code.
I don't think we should install this in Emacs, though. Something like
autoload should be kept simple and limited.
If loading a certain file needs load-path to be set a certain way,
the user should simply set load-path that way, perhaps in .emacs.
It is a bad idea to have files that only work right if load-path
is temporarily changed; rather than adding a new file to Emacs
to cope with that situation, it would be better to redesign the
Lisp code that appears to need it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-30 5:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-28 20:05 Feature Request : autoload-form paul r
2008-03-29 4:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-29 9:49 ` paul r
2008-03-29 19:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-30 5:49 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2008-03-30 11:24 ` paul r
2008-03-30 15:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-30 22:28 ` paul r
2008-03-31 7:58 ` Levin Du
2008-03-30 19:55 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-30 21:35 ` Mike Mattie
2008-03-31 16:24 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-31 17:36 ` paul r
2008-03-31 21:31 ` Mike Mattie
2008-04-02 2:53 ` Richard Stallman
2008-04-02 12:44 ` paul r
2008-04-02 17:34 ` Richard Stallman
2008-04-02 19:06 ` paul r
2008-04-02 21:07 ` Don Armstrong
2008-04-03 4:30 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-04-03 5:01 ` Don Armstrong
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