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25.0.50; Package (package.el) doc should mention effects on `load-path' |
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Sun, 18 Oct 2015 07:24:19 -0700 (PDT) |
Apparently (at least from searching package.el and (emacs) `Packages'
and its subnodes), nowhere do we tell users the effect of using the
package system on `load-path'. (Variable `load-path' is mentioned in a
couple of doc strings, but only for "internal-only" functions.)
There is this comment in the Commentary of `package.el':
;; At activation time we will set up the load-path and the info path,
;; and we will load the package's autoloads. If a package's
;; dependencies are not available, we will not activate that package.
I think it is important (helpful) to explicitly make the connection for
users between `load-path' and the package system. Please consider
making it clear. Even just a statement such as the one in that comment
would help.
Here is one demonstration of the confusion that might be avoided if such
information were made more readily available:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2015-10/msg00331.html
In GNU Emacs 25.0.50.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
of 2015-10-06
Bzr revision: a4a98a1b2568793ead43e824ecf227768759df12
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
Configured using:
`configure --prefix=/c/Devel/emacs/snapshot/trunk
--enable-checking=yes,glyphs 'CFLAGS=-O0 -g3'
LDFLAGS=-Lc:/Devel/emacs/lib 'CPPFLAGS=-DGC_MCHECK=1
-Ic:/Devel/emacs/include''
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Re: bug#21704: 25.0.50; Package (package.el) doc should mention effects on `load-path' |
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Mon, 27 Jun 2016 23:18:59 -0400 |
Version: 25.1
On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 11:37 AM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> Please use @code{load-path}, not @var.
Done.
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