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Re: Feature Request : autoload-form
From: |
Richard Stallman |
Subject: |
Re: Feature Request : autoload-form |
Date: |
Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:24:45 -0400 |
- I got rid of the monolithic .emacs, so that bits of configuration
go into dedicated "modules". There is a module for C-mode, one for
Muse-mode etc. One module resides in one file. Modules are shared in
your network of friends/colleagues ... anybody syncing with you, so
they are "network-specific" but not "user-specific".
I think I understand what these do. I'm not completely sure why you
want them, though. What job do these do, which you couldn't do by
installing some Lisp libraries in the usual way?
- To allow fine-tuning, a user can use "module configuration file",
which is an other file, with personal tweaking in it. Those conf files
are not shared and are usually optional. They are user specific, and
private. Exemple : the ERC module does a lot of configuration, but it
can not set up username, password etc because this information is
user-specific.
Why not put this stuff directly in .emacs?
I could put, at beginning of *every* modules, a (load-file
"thisModuleConfigurationFile" t).
I don't see why you want to do that, rather than putting the
"module configuration" expressions directly in .emacs.
What do you gain?
This is what I did before, but I do
not find that elegant, nor fully satisfactory in many ways for the
needs, so it now is to the TidyConfig system to carry proper loading
of modules.
I am confused. Are you talking about making a module load its module
configuration expressions, or are you talking about how to load the
module itself when it is needed? Those are two different issues, right?
Some of your words seem to imply one, and some seem to imply the other.
Here we are. I currently have no option to do so, except putting the
form I want to eval in a dummy file and registering this file with
autoload.
I have lost you completely here.
- Re: Feature Request : autoload-form, (continued)
- Re: Feature Request : autoload-form, Stefan Monnier, 2008/03/29
- Re: Feature Request : autoload-form, paul r, 2008/03/29
- Re: Feature Request : autoload-form, Richard Stallman, 2008/03/30
- Re: Feature Request : autoload-form, paul r, 2008/03/30
- Re: Feature Request : autoload-form, Richard Stallman, 2008/03/30
- Re: Feature Request : autoload-form, Stefan Monnier, 2008/03/30
- Re: Feature Request : autoload-form, paul r, 2008/03/30
- Re: Feature Request : autoload-form, Levin Du, 2008/03/31
- Re: Feature Request : autoload-form, Mike Mattie, 2008/03/30
- Re: Feature Request : autoload-form,
Richard Stallman <=
- Re: Feature Request : autoload-form, paul r, 2008/03/31
- Re: Feature Request : autoload-form, Mike Mattie, 2008/03/31