On 19 August 2018 at 15:22, David Bremner wrote: | Yes, you can add something like | | ;;;###autoload | (require 'ess-site) | | to debian/debian-autoloads.el
That doesn't do the trick. It falls back to triggering "symbol's value as variable is void: ...some ESS variable..." in my ~/.emacs But then maybe I am expecting to much. I guess I have to have it loaded before adjusting it. So back to a manual (require 'ess-site) in there. | It's questionable whether some of the other autoloads (e.g. for R-mode) | are useful in that case since they just provide lazy loading of | ess-site. | | The other alternative would be to add of the following to | debian/debian-autoloads.el | | ;;;###autoload | (autoload 'foo "ess-site" "Run foo" t) | | The advantage of the second approach is that you won't be loading ess | for every user and every emacs session. On the other hand, there may be | some entry points not covered. Some packages need a startup file like | ess-site explicitely loaded; my experience was that at least simple | things like "emacs foo.R" | | In the long run, those ;;;###autoload cookies should probably be added | upstream so that non-debian users could use them. So you might prefer | just to patch them in to ess-foo.el and send the patches upstream. | The emacs package process will collect them all and run them at package | initialization time. We can talk to upstream, easiest via an issue here: https://github.com/emacs-ess/ESS/issues On 19 August 2018 at 15:25, David Bremner wrote: | David Bremner <[email protected]> writes: | | > | > The advantage of the second approach is that you won't be loading ess | > for every user and every emacs session. On the other hand, there may be | > some entry points not covered. Some packages need a startup file like | > ess-site explicitely loaded; my experience was that at least simple | > things like "emacs foo.R" | | that is, the lazy loading provided by (autoload ...) seems to work for | ess. But of course I'm not really a good tester, I just noticed the | correct major mode was invoked. I quite liked the /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50* approach as we could set things explicitly. Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | [email protected]
