Defer load symbols when requested

[magicdirac]

Currently we have :commands to defer load commands,
is it possible defer load symbols so that when I need them load the file.

The reason I come up with this is sometimes I want to change themes but I do not want load the theme file until I use load-theme to load them. However, load-theme itself mostly can not find the themes unless you initialize them. I was wondering can we define a autoload of symbols in use-package, so that load-theme knows where to load them.

[Trevoke]

I am in a similar situation. Currently the best solution is to not use use-package for themes. It's not a huge deal but it's a little annoying.

[npostavs]

Can't you do something like

(use-package the-theme 
  :init (add-to-list 'custom-theme-load-path "path/to/the-theme") 
  :defer t)

[jwiegley]

@magicdirac How would you write such deferral without use-package?

[jwiegley]

I need more information to address this bug. Please reopen with an example of the form that doesn't work now, what you expected to do, and how you solved it without use-package. Perhaps special theme support is necessary, but I don't know yet.