Re: Emacs autoloads

[Alex Kost]

Thomas Danckaert (2017-03-02 14:13 +0100) wrote:

> From: Catonano <address@hidden>
> Subject: Emacs autoloads
> Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2017 12:51:13 +0100
>
>> I installed emacs-debbugs
>>
>> But it doesn't get autoloaded, so I had to comment out this line in
>> my .emacs file
>>
>> (add-to-list 'debbugs-gnu-all-packages "guix-patches")
>>
>> because otherwise when launching emacs it claims that
>> "debbugs-gnu-all-packages" value is void
>
> I had the same issue, solved it using “with-eval-after-load”, like this:

This is not the issue, it is expected (see my answer to Catonano), and
'with-eval-after-load' is exactly what should be used in such cases.

> (with-eval-after-load 'debbugs-gnu
>   (add-to-list 'debbugs-gnu-all-packages "guix-patches"))
>
> In fact I sent a message to guix-devel about this, but it never made it
> through...

-- 
Alex