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(Hooks for Loading): Make the description of `eval-after-load' more

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detailed, and amend the description of after-load-alist, in accordance
with changes from 2006-05.
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Alan Mackenzie 2007-02-04 18:59:44 +00:00
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@ -903,14 +903,29 @@ You can ask for code to be executed if and when a particular library is
loaded, by calling @code{eval-after-load}.
@defun eval-after-load library form
This function arranges to evaluate @var{form} at the end of loading the
library @var{library}, if and when @var{library} is loaded. If
This function arranges to evaluate @var{form} at the end of loading
the file @var{library}, each time @var{library} is loaded. If
@var{library} is already loaded, it evaluates @var{form} right away.
Don't forget to quote @var{form}!
If @var{library} is a string, it must exactly match the argument of
@code{load} used to load the library. To get the proper results when an
installed library is found by searching @code{load-path}, you should not
include any directory names in @var{library}.
You don't need to give a directory or extension in the file name
@var{library}---normally you just give a bare file name, like this:
@example
(eval-after-load "edebug" '(def-edebug-spec c-point t))
@end example
To restrict which files can trigger the evaluation, include a
directory or an extension or both in @var{library}. Only a file whose
absolute true name (i.e., the name with all symbolic links chased out)
matches all the given name components will match. In the following
example, @file{my_inst.elc} or @file{my_inst.elc.gz} in some directory
@code{..../foo/bar} will trigger the evaluation, but not
@file{my_inst.el}:
@example
(eval-after-load "foo/bar/my_inst.elc" @dots{})
@end example
@var{library} can also be a feature (i.e.@: a symbol), in which case
@var{form} is evaluated when @code{(provide @var{library})} is called.
@ -932,19 +947,20 @@ customizations if you don't feel they must meet the design standards for
programs meant for wider use.
@defvar after-load-alist
This variable holds an alist of expressions to evaluate if and when
particular libraries are loaded. Each element looks like this:
This variable, an alist built by @code{eval-after-load}, holds the
expressions to evaluate when particular libraries are loaded. Each
element looks like this:
@example
(@var{filename} @var{forms}@dots{})
(@var{regexp-or-feature} @var{forms}@dots{})
@end example
The function @code{load} checks @code{after-load-alist} in order to
implement @code{eval-after-load}.
The key @var{regexp-or-feature} is either a regular expression or a
symbol, and the value is a list of forms. The forms are evaluated when
the key matches the the absolute true name of the file being
@code{load}ed or the symbol being @code{provide}d.
@end defvar
@c Emacs 19 feature
@ignore
arch-tag: df731f89-0900-4389-a436-9105241b6f7a
@end ignore