From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: jasonr@gnu.org, Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>,
rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Suggestion: Let the help command load autoloaded functions etc
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:40:37 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878ww1wize.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85y7417gfc.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
David Kastrup writes:
> "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org> writes:
> > The file name probably has the full path, which is indeed too long.
>
> I don't see why it should have the full path.
Maybe it's just me (or just XEmacs), but I often end up with the
"wrong" library (i.e., the installed one) in the buffer, when I want
one from some source tree. On reflection, this may mostly be a
problem with XEmacs's separate package tree.
> The autoload cookies don't usually have this info in them, so there
> is no point in deriving and displaying it before the time of the
> load.
(locate-library "LIBNAME") is not that expensive.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-16 22:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-19 18:26 Suggestion: Let the help command load autoloaded functions etc Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-12-21 3:05 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-21 8:39 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-12-21 10:44 ` Jason Rumney
2007-12-21 16:20 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-12-21 16:43 ` Jason Rumney
2007-12-21 17:35 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-12-21 17:40 ` Leo
2007-12-21 18:46 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-12-22 9:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-12-22 6:30 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-22 10:36 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2007-12-22 10:42 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-12-22 10:45 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-12-22 11:23 ` Robert J. Chassell
2007-12-22 11:44 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2007-12-22 21:08 ` Richard Stallman
2008-07-16 10:28 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-07-16 10:54 ` David Kastrup
2008-07-16 11:01 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-07-16 11:08 ` David Kastrup
2008-07-16 11:55 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-07-16 19:02 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-07-16 19:55 ` David Kastrup
2008-07-16 21:11 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-07-16 22:40 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2008-07-17 6:36 ` David Kastrup
2008-07-17 8:49 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-07-17 9:56 ` David Kastrup
2008-07-17 10:41 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-07-17 22:54 ` Richard M Stallman
2007-12-22 6:29 ` Richard Stallman
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