From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@online.de>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: right customization
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 11:00:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9394C47F-93F2-4769-97F2-D33E7AA760AF@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CD282E9.6000600@online.de>
On Nov 4, 2010, at 10:54 AM, Andreas Röhler wrote:
> Am 04.11.2010 09:29, schrieb Carsten Dominik:
>>
>> On Nov 4, 2010, at 8:16 AM, Andreas Röhler wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Carsten,
>>>>>
>>>>> thanks. Error was in my way to load the devel version
>>>>>
>>>>> Have been told to follow instructions and load
>>>>>
>>>>> ;; (load "~/org-mode/lisp/org-install.elc")
>>>>
>>>> By who?
>>>>
>>>> the right customization is
>>>>
>>>> (require 'org-install).
>>>
>>> Hi Carsten,
>>>
>>> that surprises me.
>>>
>>> AFAIU
>>>
>>> (require
>>>
>>> only loads a feature, if it's not present already.
>>> As my distributed Emacs comes with an --basically empty--
>>> org-install.el, which provides it (but does nothing in reality, then
>>> sending a "provide"), I'd be afraid its done here.
>>
>> Hi Andreas,
>>
>> also the org-install.el that comes with Emacs is only loded when
>> you (or
>> some other package) issues a require.
>>
>
> So I'm nearly drowned.
> In my imagination an explicite "load" overwrites the symbols
> unconditionally,
> while "require" does a check.
This is correct, it does. However, if you path is not setup
correctly, things will *still* fail after that. You were saying that
this is the recommended way which it is not. And it is a
misconception to assume that all files that come with Emacs will
always be loaded....
- Carsten
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-04 10:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-02 9:12 Bug: M-a bound to backward-sentence Andreas Röhler
2010-11-02 15:07 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-11-03 8:22 ` Andreas Röhler
2010-11-03 22:32 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-11-04 7:16 ` right customization Andreas Röhler
2010-11-04 8:29 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-11-04 9:54 ` Andreas Röhler
2010-11-04 10:00 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
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