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bug#21563: 24.5; discourage load-hook variables
From: |
Stefan Kangas |
Subject: |
bug#21563: 24.5; discourage load-hook variables |
Date: |
Wed, 15 Jan 2020 20:32:12 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
"Roland Winkler" <winkler@gnu.org> writes:
> Somewhere in my emacs init file I was setting the variable
> dired-load-hook. (I guess I wrote this code years ago when I did
> not know much about emacs.) Yet suddenly this did not work for me
> anymore, as I had rearranged my init file so that dired got loaded
> before I was setting dired-load-hook. I suggest to discourage the
> usage of any such load-hook variables: I believe eval-after-load is
> considered to be the cleaner alternative: it does not give rise to
> the type of problems I ran into. Also it does not require user
> variables for each package.
>
> (Apropos gives me the variables align-load-hook, cal-menu-load-hook,
> calendar-load-hook, dired-load-hook, ediff-load-hook, and
> table-load-hook. There might be more.)
This suggests that all such variables should be considered obsolete,
since eval-after-load is cleaner. I think I agree, but I have only
ever used eval-after-load so I might be missing something.
I would suggest to declare the above variables obsolete and point
users to eval-after-load instead. Does anyone disagree with that?
Best regards,
Stefan Kangas
- bug#21563: 24.5; discourage load-hook variables,
Stefan Kangas <=
- bug#21563: 24.5; discourage load-hook variables, Drew Adams, 2020/01/15
- bug#21563: 24.5; discourage load-hook variables, Glenn Morris, 2020/01/15
- bug#21563: 24.5; discourage load-hook variables, Stefan Kangas, 2020/01/15
- bug#21563: 24.5; discourage load-hook variables, Drew Adams, 2020/01/15
- bug#21563: 24.5; discourage load-hook variables, Stefan Kangas, 2020/01/15
- bug#21563: 24.5; discourage load-hook variables, Drew Adams, 2020/01/15
- bug#21563: 24.5; discourage load-hook variables, Stefan Kangas, 2020/01/16
- bug#21563: 24.5; discourage load-hook variables, Drew Adams, 2020/01/16