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Re: How global is a define-global-minor-mode mode?
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Chong Yidong |
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Re: How global is a define-global-minor-mode mode? |
Date: |
Sun, 28 Jan 2007 10:47:28 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.93 (gnu/linux) |
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> > Not really: if the global minor mode is autoloaded, then :require is
> > a nuisance,
>
> > I don't follow. Could you explain why it is a nuisance?
>
> The :require thingy is a risk: if you move the definition of the mode to
> another file, then the user's customizations will be broken (it happened
> with global-font-lock-mode).
>
> It seems that you are saying the risk is that the :require has to
> specify the file name, so if you move the definition to another file,
> the :require argument will be wrong.
>
> If the :require is generated automatically, perhaps it would never be
> wrong.
The only way for Emacs to know which source file to :require, for a
third-party package, is to look at the custom-set-variables
declaration in .emacs. Therefore, the only way your suggestion can
work is for define-global-minor-mode to somehow put this information
in .emacs. If you move the source file to a different location there
is no way for .emacs to be automatically updated.
So there's no sane way to handle this automagically.
- Re: How global is a define-global-minor-mode mode?, (continued)
- Re: How global is a define-global-minor-mode mode?, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2007/01/25
- Re: How global is a define-global-minor-mode mode?, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2007/01/25
- Re: How global is a define-global-minor-mode mode?, Stefan Monnier, 2007/01/25
- Re: How global is a define-global-minor-mode mode?, Chong Yidong, 2007/01/27
- Re: How global is a define-global-minor-mode mode?, Stefan Monnier, 2007/01/25
- Re: How global is a define-global-minor-mode mode?, Richard Stallman, 2007/01/28
- Re: How global is a define-global-minor-mode mode?, Richard Stallman, 2007/01/28
- Re: How global is a define-global-minor-mode mode?,
Chong Yidong <=
- Re: How global is a define-global-minor-mode mode?, David Kastrup, 2007/01/28
- Re: How global is a define-global-minor-mode mode?, Chong Yidong, 2007/01/28
- Re: How global is a define-global-minor-mode mode?, Stefan Monnier, 2007/01/28