Re: defcustoms in style/*.el

* Reiner Steib (2005-03-05) writes:

[defustoms in AUCTeX style files]

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

Yes, but I dislike the idea of moving them out of the style files.

>>> 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.)

I looked at loaddefs.el and found `custom-autoload'.  If I am not
mistaken we could use this instead of an ;;;###autoload cookie.
Wether these custom-autoloads go into tex-site.el, tex.el, latex.el
etc. probably depends on what the defcustoms are used for.  If they
are related to latex-mode, they should go into latex.el; analogously
for other modes.  This would also fit with other customization options
in mode-specific files which won't show up unless the file gets loaded
by opening a file which triggers the mode.

-- 
Ralf