Re: master f995fbd: * lisp/server.el (server-name): Add autoload cookie. (Bug#23576)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Glenn Morris <address@hidden>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 12:44:49 -0400
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> >     * lisp/server.el (server-name): Add autoload cookie.  (Bug#23576)
> [...]
> > +;;;###autoload
> >  (defcustom server-name "server"
> 
> Autoloading defcustoms just so people can set them interactively before
> the associated package is loaded is a Bad Thing.

I don't understand why.  Can you explain?  That's not the only
defcustom that is marked as autoloaded.

> IMO it would have been better to simply remove the bit about
> set-variable from the manual.

I don't see why we should remove useful advice from the manual, just
because it's inconvenient to make it work.