Re: Patch: perform autoloading when docs is missing from autoload object

[Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com> writes:

> I wanted to later switch to just fetch the docs instead of performing
> load. Loading docs can be done without evaluating the code. It might be a
> better solution anyway?

If that's possible, that would be preferable, but as you say:

> By the way, I had thoughts about loading the library vs just docs. I reason,
> that, if I look at some symbol docs via describe-* functions, I am
> probably already using that library/package, or am about to use it, so it
> probably is going to be loaded anyway. At least in many cases, not always of
> course.

It is quite likely that you want to use the library if you've looked up
the symbol in a *Help* buffer, so why not, indeed, just load it at that
point?  If loading the library also helps with some other things --
highlighting `package-symbol's correctly in the doc string, for
instance.

So I think I'd be fine with adding the proposed functionality.  If there
are people that don't want this, we can add a user option to switch it off.

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