Re: defcustoms in style/*.el

On Fri, Mar 04 2005, Ralf Angeli wrote:

> * Reiner Steib (2005-03-04) writes:
>
>> was have some defcustoms in style/*.el:
> [...]
>> My feeling is, that this should better be placed in tex.el or latex.el
>> (as I did for when introducing defcustoms in style/graphicx.el and
>> style/beamer.el).  I think it is better to have those variables
>> available [1,2] after loading AUCTeX, no matter if a beamer, amsmath
>> or ... is used in this Emacs session.

Do you (and other people) agree, that it would be desirable to have
those custom variables available after loading AUCTeX?

>> An alternative approach would be to collect those defcustoms in a
>> separate file, say (la)tex-style.el, and require this file somewhere.
>>
>> WDYT?
>
> Would it be possible to autoload these defcustoms?  At least the Elisp
> manual states that this can be done with ;;;###autoload cookies:

I don't think so.  Our installation process would need to parse the
style/*.el files and create a e.g. tex-autoload.el file (or put them
in tex-site.el?).  And this file needs to be loaded at startup.  And I
doubt that this approach would work nicely because the usual Emacs
load process ((load "beamer.el") and friends) won't work because
style/ is not supposed to be in `load-path'.  (I didn't test this,
though.  Maybe I'm wrong.)

Bye, Reiner.
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