Autoloading

[contrapunctus-1]

How would one lazy load using literate-elisp? I tried (autoload 'foo "/path/to/foo.org"), but got eval-buffer: Invalid read syntax: #

On a related note, could you please implement a literate-elisp extension for use-package? Perhaps as a new keyword, or ideally transparently detecting an Org file and preferring to load that.

[jingtaozf]

Thanks for your suggestions.

A patch is welcome and I will do it when available.

[contrapunctus-1]

A possible solution is to create an Elisp file to literate-elisp-load the Org file -

(require 'literate-elisp)

(literate-elisp-load (format "%sfoo.org" (file-name-directory load-file-name)))

(provide 'foo)

Now one can use use-package as usual - (use-package foo :commands (foo-connect) ...)

[contrapunctus-1]

Okay, so that works for use-package users, but only because of its autoload creation behavior (:commands and friends). Everyone else has to define their own autoloads, even if the author added autoload cookies in the literate program - because generate-file-autoloads / update-file-autoloads , as run by package.el after installation, do not work for literate programs.

Is there anything literate-elisp can do about this? In the current situation, in the interests of users, I'm opting to switch to a tangling-based setup...which is sad, as I much preferred literate-elisp. 😔

[jingtaozf]

Maybe we can create an interactive command literate-autoload to load the org source file.

[jingtaozf]

I have added a commit to support autoload to org file.
https://github.com/jingtaozf/literate-elisp/blob/master/literate-elisp.org#add-advice-to-emacs-native-load-function

Can you have a test of it, and if all is fine I'll close this issue.
Thanks.