Re: defcustom and autoload

[Stefan Monnier]

> Then I looked at the Elisp files that come with Emacs.  I haven't gone
> through all of them, but it seems almost *none* of them specify
> autoloading for their defcustoms.

Yes.  It's generally not a good idea to autoload variables.

> What gives?  Are users really expected to load the whole library (and that
> assumes they know which one) before being able to customize a variable
> in it?
  
Yes.


        Stefan