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bug#5529: `uniquify-buffer-name-style' doesn't exist
From: |
Alan Mackenzie |
Subject: |
bug#5529: `uniquify-buffer-name-style' doesn't exist |
Date: |
Sat, 6 Feb 2010 20:44:00 +0000 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.5.9i |
HI, Lennart,
On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 07:18:55PM +0100, Lennart Borgman wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> wrote:
> > Seems to me that what's wanted is an autoload for variables, just like
> > we've got for functions/macros. Or have we got this already? Then when
> > anybody tries to access this variable in any way, uniquify.elc would get
> > loaded.
> We can autoload defcustoms, but there are so many so we probably do
> not want that.
Why? The "eight megabytes and continually swapping" joke is several
decades out of date.
> There are about 7000 and autoloading them all will take some computer
> resources.
Enough to make a noticeable difference?
Will (setq uniquify-buffer-name-style 'reverse) in one's .emacs pick
up such an autoload? custom-autoload is not in the Elisp manual and its
doc string is not terribly helpful.
> Therefore Stefan instead had the idea that we can make them available
> for completion, for example when you do "M-x customize-option". If
> choosen they will then be loaded. I started to work a bit on that, but
> it is not finished. (See the thread I pointed to.)
What does "make them available" mean? Create a separate obarray for
them, perhaps?
> defgroups are already autoloaded (if they are part of Emacs distribution).
OK.
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
- bug#5529: `uniquify-buffer-name-style' doesn't exist, Alan Mackenzie, 2010/02/05
- bug#5529: `uniquify-buffer-name-style' doesn't exist, Lennart Borgman, 2010/02/05
- bug#5529: `uniquify-buffer-name-style' doesn't exist, Alan Mackenzie, 2010/02/05
- bug#5529: `uniquify-buffer-name-style' doesn't exist, Lennart Borgman, 2010/02/05
- bug#5529: `uniquify-buffer-name-style' doesn't exist, Alan Mackenzie, 2010/02/06
- bug#5529: `uniquify-buffer-name-style' doesn't exist, Lennart Borgman, 2010/02/06
- bug#5529: `uniquify-buffer-name-style' doesn't exist, Drew Adams, 2010/02/06
- bug#5529: `uniquify-buffer-name-style' doesn't exist,
Alan Mackenzie <=
- bug#5529: `uniquify-buffer-name-style' doesn't exist, Stefan Monnier, 2010/02/07
- bug#5529: `uniquify-buffer-name-style' doesn't exist, Stefan Monnier, 2010/02/05
bug#5529: `uniquify-buffer-name-style' doesn't exist, Glenn Morris, 2010/02/05
bug#5529: `uniquify-buffer-name-style' doesn't exist, Glenn Morris, 2010/02/08