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Re: do-after-load-evaluation
From: |
David Kastrup |
Subject: |
Re: do-after-load-evaluation |
Date: |
Fri, 23 Jun 2006 10:12:03 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Romain Francoise <address@hidden> writes:
> Noah Friedman <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> The following change:
>
>> 2006-05-24 Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden>
>
>> * lread.c (Vafter_load_alist): doc-string: state that an element
>> now has a regexp to match file names, not a file name as such.
>>
>> breaks backward compatibility because now the after-load forms for "foo"
>> will be evaluated when "foobar" is loaded.
>
> You should use `eval-after-load' instead of adding to `after-load-alist'
> directly; it builds the following regexp for "foo":
>
> "\\(\\`\\|/\\)foo\\(\\.elc\\|\\.el\\)?\\(\\.gz\\)?\\'"
Any reason this is not
"\\(\\`\\|/\\)foo\\(\\.elc?\\)?\\(\\.gz\\)?\\'"
instead (should perform better)? And is there a reason that .elc? is
optional?
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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum