Re: [External] : Re: Have Customize always use `custom-file`

[xenodasein]

Jan 4, 2022, 04:00 by luangruo@yahoo.com:

> xenodasein--- via "Emacs development discussions." <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> writes:
>
>> Sorry for nonfree link.  TLDR: Stefan mentions existence quirks and
>> corner cases on some interactions of autoloading and Customize. 
>> Experto credite.
>>
>
> What Stefan M said was that you should not autoload variables, which is
> advice not specific to custom whatsoever.
>
> Here is Stefan's entire reply for reference:
>
>  As a general rule, you don't want to autoload variables.
>
>  Yes, it's a known problem, and there's no really good solution to it
>  (each solution I could come up with had its own set of
>  bugs/misbehaviors), which is why all I can say is "don't autoload
>  variables, please".
>
>  Even in the case where it happens to do what you want, it's
>  undesirable in my experience. It just has too many quirks and corner
>  cases
>
> Nowhere does he mention custom.
>

What are you trying to say?