Re: autoload and auto-compression-mode

[Stefan Monnier]

> The docstring of load-suffixes starts with a `*'.  According to what
> we decided, we should either get rid of that `*' or make a defcustom
> out of it.  Given the way that Auto Compression mode plays around with
> load-suffixes, it is not easy for ordinary users to customize it
> reliably (with or without my patches applied).  The only reliable way
> to change load-suffixes for an ordinary user is to customize the
> (defcustomed) variable `jka-compr-load-suffixes'.  Changing this
> situation would require more extensive changes than the ones in my
> patches and even after such changes, carelessly customizing
> load-suffixes could easily make Emacs unusable.

> I propose to remove the `*' and consider `load-suffixes' a non user
> variable.

Agreed,


        Stefan