> I see things like this fairly commonly, at the top level of the standard > Emacs libraries:
All these examples don't seem relevant since nowhere is it suggested to the user to load the library in her .emacs. > To me, it makes sense to generally avoid using user options at the top level > of the library that defines them, but I'm not sure such avoidance is always > feasible. In any case, as the above examples show, the standard libraries > are themselves full of counter examples. What makes more sense is to discourage loading of packages in .emacs. Instead users should only set vars, setup autoloads, ... > No doubt I'm still missing something - please help me understand. I want to > fix the "bug in the elisp library" in question, but I don't know how to > proceed. I want a user to be able to just load the library and go Why would she need to load the library? Stefan _______________________________________________ Help-gnu-emacs mailing list Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs