Re: tuareg-mode and ocaml-mode
On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 04:45:24PM +0200, Ralf Treinen wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 09:40:29AM +0200, Jrme Marant wrote:
> > I'm not convinced by this. Most of Emacs users I've heard are usually
> > annoyed by autoloads and prefer setting themselves in their .emacs.
>
> Looking at the contents of /etc/emacs/site-start.d on my machine
> I have the imperssion that most of the emacs-mode package do set
> autoload. Besides, we had already bug reports in the past from users
> who, for example, installed tuareg-mode and expected to have it
> activated (by autoload) automtically.
>
> For tuareg-mode I would like to set autoload. If you don't want to
> do it for ocaml-mode then it simplifies things, but stil I think
> it would be better to set autoload for ocaml-mode, too. What do
> others on this list think about this?
Having these modes autoload seems more like "the Debian way": after
you install something, it "just works". All the other modes I use set
up autoloading (including python-mode, which is also a separate
package).
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Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u
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