GNU bug report logs - #398
23.0.60; M-x customize-option Info-hide TAB not recognized

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Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:30:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: <emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org>
Subject: 23.0.60; M-x customize-option Info-hide TAB not recognized
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:22:01 -0700

Need an autoload for option Info-hide-note-references. Cannot do M-x
customize Info-hide TAB without first loading library info.el.

In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2008-05-29 on LENNART-69DE564
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4) --no-opt --cflags -Ic:/g/include
-fno-crossjumping'

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 398 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, <emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#398: 23.0.60; M-x customize-option Info-hide TAB not recognized
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:02:46 -0400

tag 398 +wontfix

> Need an autoload for option Info-hide-note-references.  Cannot do M-x
> customize Info-hide TAB without first loading library info.el.

By this argument, all defcustoms should be autoloaded.
This won't happen.


        Stefan

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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: "'Stefan Monnier'" <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: <398 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>, <emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org>
Subject: RE: bug#398: 23.0.60; M-x customize-option Info-hide TAB not recognized
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:00:51 -0700

> > Need an autoload for option Info-hide-note-references.  
> > Cannot do M-x customize Info-hide TAB without first
> > loading library info.el.
> 
> By this argument, all defcustoms should be autoloaded.
> This won't happen.

OK. 

Hm. I naively thought they were. Just out of curiosity, why not?

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: <398 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>, <emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#398: 23.0.60; M-x customize-option Info-hide TAB not recognized
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:00:37 -0400

> Hm. I naively thought they were. Just out of curiosity, why not?

Partly for laziness (as in "Haskell"), and partly because it can't be
done for all variables (e.g. for variables whose default value is not
a constant, in which case the moment at which the default value is
evaluated matters).


        Stefan

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bug closed, send any further explanations to "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> Request was from Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org> to control <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com. (Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:05:07 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

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GNU bug report logs - #398 23.0.60; M-x customize-option Info-hide TAB not recognized

GNU bug report logs - #398
23.0.60; M-x customize-option Info-hide TAB not recognized