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- From: przemek@rrdstrad.nist.gov (Przemek Klosowski)
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- Subject: Re: linenumbers.el compatible with mode-line-format.el
- Message-ID: <PRZEMEK.93Jan8160641@rrdstrad.nist.gov>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 21:06:41 GMT
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- In-reply-to: nj104@cus.cam.ac.uk's message of 8 Jan 93 11:42:24 GMT
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- In article <NJ104.93Jan8114221@bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk> nj104@cus.cam.ac.uk (Neil Jerram) writes:
-
- As someone has pointed out to me, it's very bad practice for the
- loading of a file to have side effects like the last two lines of
- linenumbers.el --
-
- (or ln-process
- (ln-start-process))
-
- -- and makes for trouble if one wants to dump an Emacs including such
- code. It would be much better therefore to delete these two lines
- from linenumbers.el and insert them in the .emacs file after the
- loading instructions.
-
- Actually, I prefer to autoload stuff; this way I don't have to
- wait for loading of every macro package that I may or may not use.
- I have the following in my .emacs:
-
- (autoload 'linenumbers "linenumbers" "line numbers in mode line" t)
-
- In such case, it is actually better to start ln-process from the file.
- I believe that these two lines should be part of (linenumber ) function
- (so they will check for the presence of the process every time the
- function is called, big deal)
- --
- przemek klosowski (przemek@rrdstrad.nist.gov)
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