From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Cc: 1041@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com, emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
Subject: bug#1041: 23.0.60; Custom variable not turned on after autoload
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 19:19:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv7i8v2732.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48DEDE28.90906@gmail.com> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Sun, 28 Sep 2008 03:30:16 +0200")
> I just changed som (require ...) to autoloads and noticed that some
> things stopped working. It looks like custom variables are not turned on
> correctly after autoload. The loading is done after
> custom-set-variables. Here is how I handle one such case now:
> ;;;###autoload
> (define-globalized-minor-mode nxhtml-global-minor-mode
> nxhtml-minor-mode
> nxhtml-maybe-turn-on-minor-mode
> :require 'nxhtml-menu
> :group 'nxhtml)
> (custom-reevaluate-setting 'nxhtml-global-minor-mode)
> (when nxhtml-global-minor-mode (nxhtml-global-minor-mode 1))
> I am not sure about the details and I do not have time to look into it
> right now, but it looks like the saved values are not used after the
> autoload. This is what I use `custom-reevaluate-setting' above for.
> The line below is for a problem when loading the library with a minor
> mode after custom-set-variables have been called. I have reported this
> problem long ago and have a patch for it. (I am not sure if this bug is
> still there since I distribute most of my libraries with something like
> the last line above. I get no bug reports about it.)
In theory, both the custom-reevaluate-setting and the `when' line should
not be needed (and are undesirable). Also, please provide a test case
(ideally even outside of nxhtml) that shows the problem you're
describing.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-28 23:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-28 1:30 bug#1041: 23.0.60; Custom variable not turned on after autoload Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-28 23:19 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2011-07-10 0:24 ` Glenn Morris
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