bug#59882: Multiple versions of Org in load-path problem

[Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>]

Max Nikulin [2022-12-14 23:02:53] wrote:
> On 14/12/2022 21:35, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>>      Like I said in another message that I sent just before receiving yours
>>>      my conclusion came from the fact that hitting 'C-h v' with the cursor
>>>      on 'org-goto-interface' provided nothing.  It was the first time this
>>>      ever happened to me.  I did try to explicitly enter the variable's
>>>      name by entering 'org-goto<TAB>', which (like 'org-go<TAB>') is not
>>>      enough: it is completed to 'org--goto'.
>> AFAICT this is a missing feature: we obey `help-enable-autoload` in
>> `describe-function` but we fail to do the same autoloading dance in
>> `describe-variable`.
>
> I think, the difference is interactive vs. non-interactive calls rather than
> `describe-function' vs. `describe-variable'. What misses this feature is
> `customize-variable'.
>
> Completion failure for "org-to" happened because result of
> `register-definition-prefixes' calls is not considered as options. I am
> aware that it may give false positives, but I still believe they should
> be added.

I'm sorry, but I don't understand what you're saying.

> Though I believe that org mixed version issue happens due to transitional
> dependency of some third party package on org or something like (require
> 'org-protocol) that can not be loaded on demand.

Hmm... indeed the "Subject:" talks about mixed versions, yet I was
discussing something not directly related.  Looks like I got off-topic
somewhere along the way without noticing, sorry.


        Stefan