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Re: master f995fbd: * lisp/server.el (server-name): Add autoload cookie.
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: master f995fbd: * lisp/server.el (server-name): Add autoload cookie. (Bug#23576) |
Date: |
Fri, 20 May 2016 16:34:40 +0300 |
> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 08:12:48 -0400
>
> > It's nuisance to load a package before you can set a variable which
> > should be used on the first use of the package's functionality. It's
> > easy to forget to load first, and then seeing "No match" or some such
> > is an annoyance.
>
> Right, but that's true of many other variables.
> It's a known problem that shouldn't be fixed by preloading every
> variable, but by making completion more clever.
I'm all for it. But as long as no one is working on that, I see no
better way than autoloading the variables. Users shouldn't suffer
from our lack of resources or motivation.
> > Because the value should be set before the first invocation of
> > server-start. If you set it after starting the server, it's too late.
> > That's not something that happens with _all_ the other defcustoms.
>
> Maybe not all, but many.
We should handle that on a per-variable basis.
- Re: master f995fbd: * lisp/server.el (server-name): Add autoload cookie. (Bug#23576), Glenn Morris, 2016/05/19
- Re: master f995fbd: * lisp/server.el (server-name): Add autoload cookie. (Bug#23576), Eli Zaretskii, 2016/05/19
- Re: master f995fbd: * lisp/server.el (server-name): Add autoload cookie. (Bug#23576), Leo Liu, 2016/05/20
- Re: master f995fbd: * lisp/server.el (server-name): Add autoload cookie. (Bug#23576), Eli Zaretskii, 2016/05/20
- Re: master f995fbd: * lisp/server.el (server-name): Add autoload cookie. (Bug#23576), Leo Liu, 2016/05/20
- Re: master f995fbd: * lisp/server.el (server-name): Add autoload cookie. (Bug#23576), Eli Zaretskii, 2016/05/20
- Re: master f995fbd: * lisp/server.el (server-name): Add autoload cookie. (Bug#23576), Dmitry Gutov, 2016/05/20
- Re: master f995fbd: * lisp/server.el (server-name): Add autoload cookie. (Bug#23576), Eli Zaretskii, 2016/05/20
- Re: master f995fbd: * lisp/server.el (server-name): Add autoload cookie. (Bug#23576), Stefan Monnier, 2016/05/20
- Re: master f995fbd: * lisp/server.el (server-name): Add autoload cookie. (Bug#23576),
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: master f995fbd: * lisp/server.el (server-name): Add autoload cookie. (Bug#23576), Stefan Monnier, 2016/05/20
- Re: master f995fbd: * lisp/server.el (server-name): Add autoload cookie. (Bug#23576), Eli Zaretskii, 2016/05/20
- Re: master f995fbd: * lisp/server.el (server-name): Add autoload cookie. (Bug#23576), Stefan Monnier, 2016/05/25
- Re: master f995fbd: * lisp/server.el (server-name): Add autoload cookie. (Bug#23576), Stefan Monnier, 2016/05/25
- Re: master f995fbd: * lisp/server.el (server-name): Add autoload cookie. (Bug#23576), Eli Zaretskii, 2016/05/26
- Re: master f995fbd: * lisp/server.el (server-name): Add autoload cookie. (Bug#23576), Stefan Monnier, 2016/05/27
- Re: master f995fbd: * lisp/server.el (server-name): Add autoload cookie. (Bug#23576), Eli Zaretskii, 2016/05/28
Re: master f995fbd: * lisp/server.el (server-name): Add autoload cookie. (Bug#23576), Glenn Morris, 2016/05/20