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Re: eval-after-load not harmful after all (Was: Re: Why js-2mode?)
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Leo |
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Re: eval-after-load not harmful after all (Was: Re: Why js-2mode?) |
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Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:17:11 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
On 2009-08-11 04:06 +0100, Daniel Colascione wrote:
> You haven't actually addressed the reason for using e-a-l and provided
> alternatives, nor have you provided any concrete examples of the harm
> e-a-l might cause. You've just put "necessary" in scare quotes without
> even considering the idea that it might actually *be* necessary.
Imagine the maintainers receive a bug report with the bug hidden
somewhere in after-load-alist and there is no way to identify which
eval-after-load call adds that entry.
It is almost impossible to unload a form in after-load-alist without
restarting Emacs and that is annoying too.
> If packages M needs to work with optional package Q, then there are
> two approaches: either M can use eval-after-load to customize Q, or Q
> can include a list of every possible M with which it can be used. You
> might decry the former, but I don't think the latter is any more
> maintainable.
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- RE: eval-after-load not harmful after all (Was: Re: Why js-2mode?), (continued)
- RE: eval-after-load not harmful after all (Was: Re: Why js-2mode?), Stephen J. Turnbull, 2009/08/11
- Re: eval-after-load not harmful after all, Stefan Monnier, 2009/08/11
- Re: eval-after-load not harmful after all, Leo, 2009/08/16
- Re: eval-after-load not harmful after all, Lennart Borgman, 2009/08/16
- Re: eval-after-load not harmful after all, Leo, 2009/08/17
- Re: eval-after-load not harmful after all, Lennart Borgman, 2009/08/17
- Re: eval-after-load not harmful after all, Leo, 2009/08/17
- Re: eval-after-load not harmful after all, Lennart Borgman, 2009/08/17
- Re: eval-after-load not harmful after all (Was: Re: Why js-2mode?), Lennart Borgman, 2009/08/10
- Re: eval-after-load not harmful after all (Was: Re: Why js-2mode?), Daniel Colascione, 2009/08/10
- Re: eval-after-load not harmful after all (Was: Re: Why js-2mode?),
Leo <=
- Re: eval-after-load not harmful after all (Was: Re: Why js-2mode?), Stephen J. Turnbull, 2009/08/11
- Re: Why js2-mode in Emacs 23.2?, Carsten Dominik, 2009/08/10
- Re: Why js2-mode in Emacs 23.2?, Leo, 2009/08/10
- Re: Why js2-mode in Emacs 23.2?, Stefan Monnier, 2009/08/10
- Re: Why js2-mode in Emacs 23.2?, Glenn Morris, 2009/08/10
- Re: Why js2-mode in Emacs 23.2?, Daniel Colascione, 2009/08/10
- Re: Why js2-mode in Emacs 23.2?, Dan Nicolaescu, 2009/08/11
- Re: Why js2-mode in Emacs 23.2?, Daniel Colascione, 2009/08/11
- Re: Why js2-mode in Emacs 23.2?, Dan Nicolaescu, 2009/08/11
- Re: Why js2-mode in Emacs 23.2?, Daniel Colascione, 2009/08/11