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From: ram-ashwin@YALE.ARPA.UUCP
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Subject: Re: autoloading [+ Proposal for new load function]
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Date: Fri, 30-Oct-87 10:36:02 EST
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>    When I make customizations to packages like rmail.el, I use the hook
>    provided (c.f., rmail-mode-hook). For example, in ~/.emacs I put
>    something like this:
> 
>    (defun rmail-mode-hook-extras ()
>      "load personal rmail extras"
>      (load-library "rmail-extra")
>      (load-library "misc-tools"))
> 
>    (setq rmail-mode-hook 'rmail-mode-hook-extras)
> 
>    everytime I do a "rmail" command, these libraries get loaded (as that
>    is when the hook is run).

This is fine, except you really don't want everything (re)loaded *each* time
you run the rmail function; rather, you want to load your libraries only
once, when you first invoke rmail.  You could, of course, get around this by
requiring your libraries rather then loading them.

-- Ashwin.

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