On Tue, 10 Sep 2013 18:13:35 -0400 "Stan Moore" <[email protected]> wrote:
Although I am sorry, I don't know well about the 'package'. But we should follow the custom of emacs always. If the custom is insufficient in a certain case, we should change it or add a new one to it, I think. Probably, It should be discussed in the emacs mailing list. > The crux of the problem is timing. The variable must be set before the mode > is active so you could set it anywhere prior to activating the mode. Lately > I've been moving things into hooks to accommodate the package system. With > packages, they aren't on the load path until AFTER .emacs is processed so > autoloads can't work. I suppose there are options but I've been putting > things into hooks that run after init; and in several I need to setup > configuration variable status. > > In this case my personal preference was to get ahead of the curve and put > the whole gtags setup in the hook. In the future, if gtags is added to the > load path late I won't even notice because the c-mode hooks will always come > after the "system" init is finished. The packages almost make "system" init > a two stage process so this allows for that possibility and doesn’t have any > real side effects of it is relatively harmless. > > At the moment I'm using a local copy of gtags but if a newer version was to > show up in packages I would probably just add the package and that would > break gtags if the variable wasn't set after the "system" init and before > the mode is activated. The first time I had that happen with a different > package it was nontrivial to figure out what was happening. When I found out > that packages are added to the load path after .emacs it was a surprise. The > packages system is causing many to dig through crufty old parts of .emacs > and in the long run that's probably a good thing. > > The above notwithstanding, I wouldn't have any problem if the documentation > examples set the variable globally and loaded the mode in the typical > fashion. The keybindings work fine as long as the variable is set before the > mode is activated. > > Stan -- Shigio YAMAGUCHI <[email protected]> PGP fingerprint: D1CB 0B89 B346 4AB6 5663 C4B6 3CA5 BBB3 57BE DDA3 _______________________________________________ Bug-global mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-global
