Re: outline-minor-mode-prefix doen't work?

[Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk>]

William Xu <william.xwl@gmail.com> writes:

> The point is that setting of outline-minor-mode-prefix should be done
> before loading outline.el, or more exactly, defining the keymap. Do we
> agree on this? If yes, adding (require 'outline) afterwards is just
> explicitly to guarantee this.

The point Stefan and David are trying to make is that Emacs packages
are in general designed to be loaded as late as possible, and relying
on autoload are therefore better than using an explicit require.

You can, again in general, do lots of customizations to a package
before it is loaded.

The reason Emacs work like this is to make upstart faster, and avoid
loading stuff that might not be used in a given session.

Some independently developed packages are designed to take effect just
by loading them, but the Emacs developers try to fix that before
including them in the main distribution.