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bug#14746: 24.3.50; update-file-autoloads: Generate absolute paths?
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
bug#14746: 24.3.50; update-file-autoloads: Generate absolute paths? |
Date: |
Fri, 28 Jun 2013 23:43:35 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
> 1. Eithe M-x update-file-autoloads should generate absolute filepaths.
> 2. (autoload ...) should be accomodative of relative paths in it's arguments.
The way autoload works is that it looks through load-path, and
autoload.el expects that the file containing those autoloads will be
placed in a directory that appears in load-path.
IOW, you're using it in a way that is very different from the one intended.
We could probably add a config var to make it work the way you expect,
tho we usually prefer relative file names, which makes the file
position-independent to some extent.
E.g. you could have a ~/elisp directory, then you could place all your
Elisp packages somewhere underneath ~/elisp and you can then do
1. C-x C-f ~/elisp/private/orgmuse.el
2. M-x update-file-autoloads
When prompted for the where to write, say ~/elisp/autoloads
and in Emacs just add (load "~/elisp/autoloads"). And also add
(add-to-list 'load-path (or (file-name-directory #$) (car load-path)))
at the beginning of ~/elisp/autoloads.
Stefan