Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Autoloads for RefTeX

[Carsten Dominik]

Two things to keep in mind:

1. RefTeX uses a maybe non-standard way to load the different
subfiles like reftex-cite.el etc.  It does not do (require 
'reftex-cite).
Instead, reftex.el does contain autoload forms for all necessary entry
points of all other files.  I did this when I split the one big
original file into many small ones, and back then I did not know a 
better
way to do this.  As a consequence, is it possible that not all necessary
entry points in the different files do have an ;;;###autoload cookie.
It might be necessary to add these, starting from the autoload forms
in reftex.el.


On Mar 3, 2007, at 19:04, Ralf Angeli wrote:

> Hi,
>
> the current installation instructions for RefTeX tell the user to put
> autoloads for some entry functions manually into the user's init file.
> I don't really like this because it is prone to fail when functions
> move, it clutters the init file, and it unnecessarily exposes the
> implementation of the package.  So it generally is somewhat clunky.

Fully agreed

> IMO a better approach would be to generate during installation a file
> containing autoloads which the user then may load from the init file
> in a similar way we currently do this for AUCTeX and preview-latex and
> how install.el does it.  The file could even be part of the
> distribution.

Instead of during installation, it could be done during creation
of the distribution package.
I guess an alternative could be to make reftex.el a small file
with only autoloads and basic setup, and then have a reftex-base.el
with the current content of reftex.el.

- Carsten