Re: possible to make loading org not make any changes?

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

Hi Samuel,

On May 6, 2009, at 9:07 PM, Samuel Wales wrote:

> Thanks for considering it.  I didn't know whether it would be
> difficult or not.  Obviously if it's too hard it's too hard.
>
> Background:
>
> I was hoping that some bugs I've not been able to track down could be
> fixed by making loading side-effect free.   I thought it might help
> fix future bugs also.
>
> For example, org-return-follows-link seems to stop working for me
> quite frequently, and I suspect that it has something to do with
> autoloading or org-reload.  It doesn't seem to matter where in .emacs
> it is set.
>
> FWIW my info tree says this:
>
> (elisp)Coding Conventions
> ===
>   * Simply loading the package should not change Emacs's editing
>     behavior.  Include a command or commands to enable and disable the
>     feature, or to invoke it.
> ===


I think this is meant such that

(require 'org)

will not do anything until you turn on Org-mode in a buffer.

I don't think it means that re-loading the same package cannot restore
some of its defaults.  In fact, one of the reasons for reloading is
so the new/modified features can be activated without restarting Emacs.

Still, I agree that it is not nice to overwrite your key bindings,
or to make org-return-follows-link stop working.  The latter is
clearly a bug which I would like to fix.

- Carsten


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