Re: do-after-load-evaluation

[Romain Francoise]

Noah Friedman <address@hidden> writes:

> The following change:

>     2006-05-24  Alan Mackenzie  <address@hidden>

>             * lread.c (Vafter_load_alist): doc-string: state that an element
>             now has a regexp to match file names, not a file name as such.
>
> breaks backward compatibility because now the after-load forms for "foo"
> will be evaluated when "foobar" is loaded.

You should use `eval-after-load' instead of adding to `after-load-alist'
directly; it builds the following regexp for "foo":

    "\\(\\`\\|/\\)foo\\(\\.elc\\|\\.el\\)?\\(\\.gz\\)?\\'"

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