Re: defcustoms in style/*.el

* David Kastrup (2005-03-08) writes:

>>>> I'd rather like to have this solved with autoload.  But as we saw,
>>>> Customize is not able to build a buffer with autoloaded defcustoms
>>>> as they don't provide information to which group they belong.
>>>
>>> Well, so what?  Then we'll just place explicit :group tags into every
>>> defcustom.  I don't see the problem.
>>
>> Could you elaborate on that?
>>
>> I tried
>>
>> (custom-autoload (quote LaTeX-beamer-item-overlay-flag) "style/beamer")
>>
>> which did not work[1] despite `LaTeX-beamer-item-overlay-flag' having had
>> a ":group 'LaTeX-macro" tag until yesterday.  (It now has a ":group
>> 'LaTeX-style" tag.)  And I am not really sure if I am bending the
>> definition of `custom-autoload' too much by using something like
>> "style/beamer".
>
> Ok, so maybe I misunderstood the process.  Would using any of
> (defun custom-add-to-group (group option widget)
[...]
> be helpful for the task at hand?

It seems to work.  With tex-style.el not loaded, try

(progn
  (custom-autoload 'LaTeX-beamer-item-overlay-flag "tex-style")
  (custom-add-to-group 'emacs 'LaTeX-beamer-item-overlay-flag 'custom-variable)
  (customize-group 'emacs))

But I am not sure if this helps much because there still is the
problem with the style files not being in load-path.  Using
"style/whatever" probably only works by accident.  In addition it
would be nice if one would not have to deal with Customize internals
to achieve this.  It seems a bit dangerous.

-- 
Ralf