Re: Autoloaded defcustoms

[Lennart Borgman]

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Juri Linkov <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> Yes, but the situation I am talking about is that custom-set-variables
>>>> have been run before custom-autoload (see my prev message).
>>>
>>> That would be a pilot error.
>>
>> Yes, but who is the pilot ...?
>
> Catch-22 :-)
>
>> Or, why not take care of this problem? I have no problem giving more
>> concrete examples why this can be needed, but do I have to do that?
>
> Why do you need to run custom-set-variables before custom-autoload?

This could be during startup of Emacs. There is nothing that says
custom-set-variables should be the last thing there. (And default.el
is run afterwards.)

Another situation could be if you are trying out a package. Doing that
might require that you run a file with its load defs. You may
customize some variables in that package. The next time you start
Emacs and try this package again those customized variables will be in
a mixed state. You can for example get global minor mode whose value
is t, but that does not work. The people will start complaining that
the package does not work.

I have seen this happen. Is there any reason not to handle the problem
the way I suggested?