RE: [emacs-wiki-discuss] Re: Autoloads

[Phillip Lord]

Björn Lindström wrote:
> drkm <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> I'm re-installing Muse & Planner, on a new laptop.  And I was
>> surprised to find that Muse doesn't use ";;;###autoload" cookies
>> (Planner does).  Why?  Is there some reason?
>> 
>> This makes installing more difficult, and forces users to add a
>> plethora of 'require' in their '~/.emacs.el'.
> 
> I didn't write it, so I don't know exactly why.
> 
> However, since Muse uses macros for style definitions, you would still
> have to load it at start-up time as long as you want to do the style
> definitions at that point.
> 
> In my opinion, this is yet an argument for my suggestion in
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.wiki.general/4301
> 


You could pull the macros out into a file, the way that
cl does. Then, an (eval-when-compile) would make dependant
files work. 

Not that I disagree with your point. I think that your idea
is entirely the way to go. 

Phil