ERC: miscompiled macros

[Jerry James]

Hi Adrian,

Adrian Aichner <adrian at xemacs.org> wrote:
> there are absolutely no diffs between
> 2004-03-12_09-01_macro_err_1.txt
> and
> 2004-03-10_10-01_macro_err_1.txt
> so this has been around for a while.

It has.  Actually, I've reported it at least twice before, but I think I
caught you on vacation or something.  At least, I remember getting a
"mailbox is full" back from your account on one of those occasions.

> However, I would like to fix these.

Great.

> Is there a cookbook style documentation for fixing miscompiled macros?

Well, the problem is that erc.el has not been evaluated when
erc-members.el is compiled, so the macro definitions are not available.
The fix is probably just to put

(eval-when-compile (require 'erc))

at the top of erc-members.el somewhere.

> Is the basic idea that defining features need to be required inside
> (eval-when-compile ...) or autoloads modified to specify when
> autoloaded "function" is really a macro?

Exactly.

> BTW: What about keymaps not autoloaded with the 'keymap argument?

Errrmmmm....  I don't know.
-- 
Jerry James
http://www.ittc.ku.edu/~james/