Subject: Re: bug#57639: [PATCH] Add new command 'toggle-theme'

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2022 08:25:26 -0400

Eli Zaretskii [2022-10-19 13:59:33] wrote:
>> From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
>> Cc: Philip Kaludercic <[email-masked]>,  [email-masked],
>>   [email-masked],  [email-masked]
>> Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2022 22:43:14 -0400
>> 
>>     ** Themes have special autoload cookies.
>>     All build-in themes are scraped for ;;;###theme-autoload cookies that
>>     are loaded along with the regular auto-loaded code.
>> 
>> but I can't see any good reason why Emacs users should care about that.
>> It seems like a purely internal hack (and given the restrictions on
>> what can be autoloaded this way, we probably shouldn't advertise it too
>> loudly, unless accompanied with appropriate warnings).
>
> NEWS is not just for users, it is also for developers, in particular
> developers of themes.

But the above is only potentially useful for those themes that are
built-in.  That's a mighty small audience, if you ask me, and IIUC that
audience was already part of the discussion that introduced this change,
so they won't learn it from etc/NEWS :-(

        Stefan