Re: efs and custom

Ben> you're supposed to put the :require on all defcustoms that control whether Ben> the feature is enabled or not. Ben> packages are *never* supposed to enable themselves automatically upon load. EFS seems to be special in this respect because it used to be on by default in core Lisp. Ben> perhaps efs is broken in both respects? i.e. it enables itself on load and Ben> doesn't even have a variable to turn itself on or off? `allow-remote-paths' But that's in core. No, it's not. It used to be. I put it in. Someone took it out. So I guess `file-remote-p' is broken by now: (defun file-remote-p (file-name) "Test whether FILE-NAME is looked for on a remote system." (cond ((not allow-remote-paths) nil) ((featurep 'ange-ftp) (ange-ftp-ftp-path file-name)) ((fboundp 'efs-ftp-path) (efs-ftp-path file-name)) (t nil))) What a mess. I'll try to sort this out. Also, it seems to me :require doesn't solve John's problem. Isn't really an autoload cookie what's needed? But maybe I'm just too stupid out customize: I've failed even at operating the GUI. -- Cheers =8-} Chipsy Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla