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| From: | Glenn Morris |
| Subject: | Re: master f995fbd: * lisp/server.el (server-name): Add autoload cookie. (Bug#23576) |
| Date: | Fri, 20 May 2016 13:30:04 -0400 |
| User-agent: | Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Autoloading defcustoms just so people can set them interactively before >> the associated package is loaded is a Bad Thing. > > I don't understand why. Can you explain? That's not the only > defcustom that is marked as autoloaded. It's the Emacs policy, and has been for years, to not autoload defcustoms unless it's really needed for some special reason. Eg http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2007-06/msg00360.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2010-01/msg01145.html I agree with Stefan. It's just wrong. Don't try to solve a generic issue by autoloading the world one piece at a time. >> IMO it would have been better to simply remove the bit about >> set-variable from the manual. > > I don't see why we should remove useful advice from the manual, just > because it's inconvenient to make it work. It's not useful advice. This is the only instance of M-x set-variable in the entire manual! No-one using multiple servers (a relatively advanced feature) needs that crutch. It adds nothing to the manual to have it there, and it should be taken out.
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