Re: Filesets menu and customize

[Luc Teirlinck]

Jesper Harder wrote:

   The 'filesets' menu is turned on (and filesets.el is presumeably loaded)
   by just browsing customization groups.

I do not believe that Custom can avoid loading filesets.el, because it
needs to have access to the information contained in it.  I do not
know what Emacs' "official policy" on the subject is, but I personally
find it extremely annoying and confusing if just loading a file
changes Emacs' look or behavior.  Not just Custom, but other
facilities, as well as users themselves, sometimes need to load files
to have access to the information, functions and variables contained
in them, without wanting any change in look or behavior.

So why not have the filesets machinery and menu-item enabled by a
minor mode, say filesets-mode, rather than by just:

(require 'filesets)

Disabling the minor mode would remove the menu-item.

Sincerely,

Luc.