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

[Po Lu]

xenodasein--- via "Emacs development discussions." <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
writes:

>> 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?

I'm trying to say that Stefan did not say that custom specifically has
problems with autoloaded variables in his reply on StackOverflow.

What he instead said was that variables should not be autoloaded.