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Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir
From: |
Ted Zlatanov |
Subject: |
Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir |
Date: |
Wed, 23 Mar 2011 10:32:09 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.110016 (No Gnus v0.16) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 07:05:14 -0500 Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> wrote:
TZ> On Sat, 19 Mar 2011 22:58:15 -0400 Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> 1. Each of the defcustom items now has a require property.
>>> The main benefit of this is that a user may now simply place
>>> load-dir.el in their load path, use M-x load-library to load
>>> 'load-dir' and then do a M-x customize-group to customize the
>>> 'load-dir' group, customize load-dirs, and restart Emacs. There is
>>> no need to also manually edit their .emacs file to add a '(require
>>> 'load-dir)' in order to actually cause Emacs to load load-dir.el.
SM> If it's meant as an ELPA package, this is unneeded, since just
SM> installing the package can cause installation of some autoloads.
SM> This is important because the use of :require in defcustoms is generally
SM> discouraged (it places the feature name (i.e. the file name) into the
SM> user's custom-file, so if the feature gets moved to another file or of
SM> the file gets renamed, previous cutomizations tend to signals errors
SM> about not finding the old file name).
TZ> OK, I've taken those requires out of my version. Is it possible to put
TZ> it in the ELPA branch?
Do you want me to post the version with those changes or can I just
commit it to the ELPA branch?
Thanks
Ted
Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir, Ben Key, 2011/03/19
Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir, Ben Key, 2011/03/23