Am 29.10.2014 um 17:15 schrieb Trevor Murphy:
Hi, list!
I'm perverse and want to install Evil via package.el and load it via customize. I notice that Evil does not turn on at startup when I customize evil-mode to t. I still have to explicitly call (evil-mode 1) in my init-file.
Is this known behavior?
No, at least for me.
If so, is it a bug?
Perhaps.
If so, can I fix it somehow?
I don't know, never tried. But, is it supposed to work? I see the following problem: the variable `evil-mode` is defined in Evil and is not known to Emacs until Evil is loaded (i.e. until `(require 'evil)`). If you customize `evil-mode` to t, this will change the value of this variable. But Emacs does not know that it has to load Evil to actually get the correct definition of this variable (for Emacs it's just a variable without any relation to some package). I do not know if it is possible to have something like an 'autoload variable', i.e. as soon as a variable is customized Evil loads a corresponding package. It is possible for functions (like the `evil-mode` function), though. Best regards, Frank