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bug#11106: 24.0.94; enhancement request: have autoload treat faces like
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Stefan Monnier |
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bug#11106: 24.0.94; enhancement request: have autoload treat faces like it does options |
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Wed, 28 Mar 2012 11:50:48 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.94 (gnu/linux) |
> For #1: Make an autoload cookie before a defface do something
> analogous to what it does before a defcustom. I'm no expert on the
> latter, so yes, this is vague. IIUC, an autoload cookie handles an
> option definition by setting the option value at autoload time, but it
> does not simply copy the defcustom to the autoloads file.
;;;###autoload on a defcustom pretty much copies the defcustom, tho it
addmittedly tries to strip away things that won't be needed until the
file is actually loaded.
But I don't know what that would mean for defface. IOW what is the
concrete problem you see with ;;;###autoload on a defface that you'd
like to see fixed?
> Assume you want to provide autoloading for the faces,
I can't assume it, since you're trying to explain to me why that would
be useful.
> to let users get to their doc.
That's it? So you only want it for describe-face's purpose?
Then autoloading is not the right answer. We're back at the issue of
finding documentation for vars, functions, and now faces in not-yet
loaded code. We don't need to autoload the whole world for that.
[ Sorry, didn't read the rest, assuming that it is not relevant since
I rejected the main assumption. ]
Stefan