Re: make bootstrap fails due to grep autoload

[Daniel Pfeiffer]

Saluton,

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> skribis:

> > ;;;###autoload
> > (define-compilation-mode grep-mode "Grep"
> 
> Why would anyone want to autoload `grep-mode'?

The current compile and its submodes put a first line like

cd ~/.emacs.d/cvs/      # -*-compilation-*-
cd ~/.emacs.d/cvs/      # -*-grep-*-

such that the output can be saved and later reused.  So having these modes be
autoloadable does make some sence.

> Maybe we want to put
> 
>         (autoload 'grep-mode "grep" nil t)
> 
> in compile.el so that code that does (require 'compile) in order to get
> `grep-mode' still works, but the autoload has nothing to do in loaddefs.el

This wouldn't fulfill the above need.  I'd have assumed that using the long
form of

;;;autoload (...)

would solve this, but I didn't understand what the comment (since removed)
said about that not working.

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Daniel Pfeiffer

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