Re: funniness with autoload of mouse-avoidance-mode

>>>>> On Mon, 08 Apr 2002 00:22:59 +0100, John Paul Wallington <jpw(a)shootybangbang.com&gt; said: jpw> James LewisMoss <dres(a)lewismoss.net&gt; wrote: >> OK. I run "xemacs21 -vanilla". Then "(setq mouse-avoidance-mode >> 'banish)". Then when I do C-h m I get the error: Symbol's value >> as variable is void: mouse-avoidance-mode-line-string >> >> Seems to be a problem with setting the var rather than >> customizing, but is still a bug? jpw> If we add an autoload cookie for jpw> `mouse-avoidance-mode-line-string' then we wont see the error. jpw> However, (setq mouse-avoidance-mode 'banish) is wrong because it jpw> doesn't call the mouse-avoidance-mode function so the user jpw> doesn't get any mouse-avoidance functionality. I agree, but this was in a file that was auto generated at one point. (Long ago.) So it's reasonable to expect that others might have the same old setting somewhere.