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Re: How global is a define-global-minor-mode mode?
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David Kastrup |
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Re: How global is a define-global-minor-mode mode? |
Date: |
Sun, 28 Jan 2007 17:37:52 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Chong Yidong <address@hidden> writes:
> 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.
Uh, wouldn't the file to require be load-file-name at the time
define-global-minor-mode is loaded or executed via autoload?
--
David Kastrup
- 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, 2007/01/28
- Re: How global is a define-global-minor-mode mode?,
David Kastrup <=
- 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