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| author | Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com> | 2019-07-05 22:26:13 -0400 |
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| committer | Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com> | 2019-07-06 14:34:47 -0400 |
| commit | 1f7b602f843d82d2da46528c6cc2a16c794ca668 (patch) | |
| tree | b086a1eef2ac989a4acca5304e0537f67ad10d69 /lisp/emacs-lisp | |
| parent | 99a7a188ec052ffcae06ffe49ffe29ccbc2c50ee (diff) | |
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Add commentary about #$ in autoload files
* lisp/emacs-lisp/autoload.el (autoload-rubric): Add commentary about
`#$' trick.
Diffstat (limited to 'lisp/emacs-lisp')
| -rw-r--r-- | lisp/emacs-lisp/autoload.el | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/autoload.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/autoload.el index 21b8caccf4b..dfcf17ce1e8 100644 --- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/autoload.el +++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/autoload.el @@ -370,7 +370,11 @@ FILE's name." ";;\n" ";;; Code:\n\n" (if lp - ;; `load-path' should contain only directory names. + ;; Use the `#$' to indicate current file, from which + ;; we extract the directory name. Note that + ;; `package-quickstart-refresh' specifically replaces + ;; `#$', so any other tricks (e.g., `load-file-name') + ;; will not work for that case. "(add-to-list 'load-path (directory-file-name (or (file-name-directory #$) (car load-path))))\n\n") " \n" @@ -381,7 +385,7 @@ FILE's name." (file-name-sans-extension basename)))) ";; Local Variables:\n" ";; version-control: never\n" - ";; no-byte-compile: t\n" + ";; no-byte-compile: t\n" ;; #$ is byte-compiled into nil. ";; no-update-autoloads: t\n" ";; coding: utf-8\n" ";; End:\n" |