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Re: doc of defining minor modes
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David Kastrup |
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Re: doc of defining minor modes |
Date: |
Fri, 19 May 2006 18:29:35 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
"Drew Adams" <address@hidden> writes:
> Consider a (typical) external library that is not required by any
> other library. It is not part of Emacs itself; nothing in it is
> preloaded. Are you saying that there is some way that browsing
> Customize or using a menu or byte-compiling some file would cause
> that library to be loaded? Is there some way for it to be loaded
> without the user explicitly loading it? If so, this should be
> explained, because it is really not obvious.
Many external libraries use autoload cookies in order to create a
short startup file that gets loaded unconditionally in order to make
Emacs aware of the library's existence.
> I do not see how Emacs would even know of the existence of such a
> library until it is loaded.
Autoloads. It does not make sense for larger libraries to get loaded
when they are possibly not going to be needed.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
- Re: doc of defining minor modes, (continued)
- Re: doc of defining minor modes, Stefan Monnier, 2006/05/18
- Re: doc of defining minor modes, David Kastrup, 2006/05/18
- RE: doc of defining minor modes, Drew Adams, 2006/05/18
- Re: doc of defining minor modes, David Kastrup, 2006/05/18
- RE: doc of defining minor modes, Drew Adams, 2006/05/18
- Re: doc of defining minor modes, David Kastrup, 2006/05/18
- RE: doc of defining minor modes, Drew Adams, 2006/05/18
- Re: doc of defining minor modes, David Kastrup, 2006/05/19
- RE: doc of defining minor modes, Drew Adams, 2006/05/19
- RE: doc of defining minor modes, Drew Adams, 2006/05/19
- Re: doc of defining minor modes,
David Kastrup <=
- RE: doc of defining minor modes, Drew Adams, 2006/05/19
- Re: doc of defining minor modes, Andreas Schwab, 2006/05/19
- Re: doc of defining minor modes, Stefan Monnier, 2006/05/19
- RE: doc of defining minor modes, Drew Adams, 2006/05/19
- Re: doc of defining minor modes, David Kastrup, 2006/05/19
- Re: doc of defining minor modes, Stefan Monnier, 2006/05/19
- Re: doc of defining minor modes, Miles Bader, 2006/05/18
Re: doc of defining minor modes, David Kastrup, 2006/05/18
Re: doc of defining minor modes, Richard Stallman, 2006/05/18