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bug#10868: 24.0.93; `comment-style' needs to be explained
From: |
Lawrence Mitchell |
Subject: |
bug#10868: 24.0.93; `comment-style' needs to be explained |
Date: |
Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:24:00 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.130004 (Ma Gnus v0.4) Emacs/24.0.93 (gnu/linux) |
Glenn Morris wrote:
> Lawrence Mitchell wrote:
>> The docstring of comment-style refers the user to comment-styles for
>> details on what the values mean. However, this is not available until
>> after newcomment.el is loaded. So autoload comment-styles to avoid
>> this problem.
> Then this is an instance of a general problem. See eg
> http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=1768
> for the same thing.
> IMO there should be a general solution rather than papering over every
> instance that occurs with more pre/autoloading.
Sure, but you can't do this, right? You don't know where the
variable is defined until /after/ the file it's defined in is
loaded. Sure, you can guess that links in a docstring for a
variable that is autoloaded from package foo may also lead to
other variables in package foo, but that's not foolproof.
I guess the help system could load the file of autoloaded
variables when showing their docstring, but people are bound to
complain about that too.
Lawrence
- bug#10868: 24.0.93; `comment-style' needs to be explained, (continued)
- bug#10868: 24.0.93; `comment-style' needs to be explained, Glenn Morris, 2012/02/22
- bug#10868: 24.0.93; `comment-style' needs to be explained, Drew Adams, 2012/02/22
- bug#10868: 24.0.93; `comment-style' needs to be explained, Lawrence Mitchell, 2012/02/23
- bug#10868: 24.0.93; `comment-style' needs to be explained, Stefan Monnier, 2012/02/23
- bug#10868: 24.0.93; `comment-style' needs to be explained, Drew Adams, 2012/02/23
- bug#10868: 24.0.93; `comment-style' needs to be explained, Stefan Monnier, 2012/02/23
- bug#10868: 24.0.93; `comment-style' needs to be explained, Drew Adams, 2012/02/23
- bug#10868: 24.0.93; `comment-style' needs to be explained, Chong Yidong, 2012/02/24
- bug#10868: 24.0.93; `comment-style' needs to be explained, Glenn Morris, 2012/02/23
- bug#10868: 24.0.93; `comment-style' needs to be explained, Glenn Morris, 2012/02/23
- bug#10868: 24.0.93; `comment-style' needs to be explained,
Lawrence Mitchell <=
- bug#10868: 24.0.93; `comment-style' needs to be explained, Drew Adams, 2012/02/23