Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote: dired.el, info.el, (and i just noticed) mail/rmail.el fail to load because the variable `desktop-buffer-mode-handlers' is not defined. the scenario occurs when one doesn't load desktop.el ever.
`desktop-buffer-mode-handlers' is defined, even if desktop is never loaded. That is what autoload cookies are for. It is defined by loaddefs.el: (defvar desktop-buffer-mode-handlers nil "\ ... If your loaddefs.el does not contain this line, it is out of date. > In general, use of eval-after-load should be avoided. what is a better way to avoid the error thrown by `add-to-list' (in this specific case), then? `make bootstrap' (maybe with `make maintainer-clean' first, but I do not believe that is necessary) or else: $ cd lisp $ make autoloads EMACS=../src/emacs I do not get these errors, because my loaddefs.el is up to date. the desired behavior is ability to load/use info, dired, rmail, without having to load desktop.el. if i don't use desktop.el, i don't want it loaded (or autoloaded), *ever*. `desktop-buffer-mode-handlers' is a variable. Autoloading a variable does not load its file. The definition in loaddefs.el suffices: *** Welcome to IELM *** Type (describe-mode) for help. ELISP> desktop-buffer-mode-handlers nil ELISP> (featurep 'desktop) nil I believe that you should revert your changes. Sincerely, Luc. _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
