Two failures when computing autoloads

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Sat Dec 1 15:03:08 EST 2007


Jerry James writes:

 > While looking for clues to the ECB problem, I noticed that there are
 > two backtraces in the package smoketest (search for "Backtrace").
 > Both of them are due to an invocation of outline-minor-mode appearing
 > in file local variables.  Should we suppress the evaluation of file
 > local variables while computing autoloads?

IMO, yes.  We're treating the file as a whole as static data; file
local variables generally affect display and editing, which we don't
want in that context.  Suppressing evaluation would be consistent with
their treatment during loading, as well.

We need to be careful about normal-mode, which ignores settings of
file local controls.



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