Announcements and discussions for Gnus, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: "Juan José García-Ripoll" <juanjose.garciaripoll@gmail.com>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: use-package :custom causes gnus to load
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2023 16:40:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <864jiaize8.fsf@csic.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a5s3ugee.fsf@posteo.net>

Your below example shows using :config and an explicit setq statement to
change the value of that variable. I found that this approach *does not*
trigger loading gnus, but using the :custom field of use-package does. I
cannot really fathom why.

Bartosz Kaczyński <bkaczynski@posteo.net> writes:
> Juan José García-Ripoll <juanjose.garciaripoll@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>
> Hi,
>
>>
>> I have a stupid peeve with my current configuration, which relies on
>> `use-package` to defer loading of `gnus`, but still configuring relevant
>> parameters.
>>
>> I have found that all of the :custom statements are fine, except for
>>
>> :custom
>> (gnus-select-method '(nnnil ""))
>>
>> It seems this custom statement triggers loading of gnus. I found this
>> can be used by replacing this statement with
>>
>> :config
>> (setq gnus-select-method '(nnnil ""))
>>
>> However, it is less than satisfactory.
>
> Why is that?
>
> (use-package gnus
>   :init
>   (add-hook 'gnus-group-mode-hook 'gnus-topic-mode)
>
>   :config
>   (setq gnus-select-method '(nnnil ""))
>     (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
>         '((nntp "news.gmane.io")
>   --snip--
>
> I don't have any issues with this configuration.
>
>>
>> Any clue about this?
>
>

-- 
Juan José García Ripoll
http://juanjose.garciaripoll.com
http://quinfog.hbar.es



  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-10-28 14:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-10-28  9:53 Juan José García-Ripoll
2023-10-28 11:37 ` Bartosz Kaczyński
2023-10-28 13:39   ` Björn Bidar
2023-10-28 14:40   ` Juan José García-Ripoll [this message]
2023-10-28 15:33     ` Björn Bidar
2023-10-28 15:38     ` Bartosz Kaczyński

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=864jiaize8.fsf@csic.es \
    --to=juanjose.garciaripoll@gmail.com \
    --cc=info-gnus-english@gnu.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).