From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: defcustom and autoload
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:14:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv7iq945x1.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1181358110.556558.81560@k79g2000hse.googlegroups.com
> Then I looked at the Elisp files that come with Emacs. I haven't gone
> through all of them, but it seems almost *none* of them specify
> autoloading for their defcustoms.
Yes. It's generally not a good idea to autoload variables.
> What gives? Are users really expected to load the whole library (and that
> assumes they know which one) before being able to customize a variable
> in it?
Yes.
Stefan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-12 14:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-09 3:01 defcustom and autoload nobrowser
2007-06-09 12:40 ` Daniel Jensen
2007-06-12 14:14 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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