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From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
	"emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [External] : Re: Patch: perform autoloading when docs is missing from autoload object
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2021 19:34:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AM9PR09MB4977AC06CDE8FD2656F91C5296DE9@AM9PR09MB4977.eurprd09.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <SJ0PR10MB54881802B4348A86576CE0E7F3DE9@SJ0PR10MB5488.namprd10.prod.outlook.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Sat, 18 Sep 2021 16:03:16 +0000")

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

>> 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?
>
> It's also quite likely - even more likely IMO
> - that you do NOT want to use (load) the
> library - you just wanted to check the doc of
> something in it.
>
> "Just load it" isn't right.  Let _users_ load
> it when they want to.  That's trivial to do.
>
> If you added an option that does such eager
> loading, that would be one thing.  But to
> "just load" unconditionally would be very
> wrong, IMHO.
>
>> 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.
>
> That's wrong.  Add an option to switch it
> on, if you want to provide such an optional
> behavior.

:) Yes I agree with you.

That option is in the patch already, and the default is 'nil'. Haven't you
looked at it?

Everything is "as-before" until user actively toggles that option on:

(defcustom help-enable-symbol-autoload nil
  "Perform autoload when documentation is not present in autoload object."
  :type 'boolean
  :group 'help
  :version "28.1")



  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-18 17:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-15 13:51 Patch: perform autoloading when docs is missing from autoload object Arthur Miller
2021-09-15 18:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-09-15 22:29   ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-17 16:38     ` Stefan Monnier
2021-09-17 16:56       ` Generic autoloading? [Was Patch: perform autoloading when docs is missing from autoload object] Qiantan Hong
2021-09-17 19:36         ` Stefan Monnier
2021-09-17 19:51           ` Qiantan Hong
2021-09-17 21:25         ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-17 21:09       ` Patch: perform autoloading when docs is missing from autoload object Arthur Miller
2021-09-18 13:37         ` Stefan Monnier
2021-09-18 18:25           ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-20 17:02             ` Stefan Monnier
2021-09-22 16:18               ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-16 12:51 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-17  6:49   ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-17 14:01     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-17 15:04       ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-18 13:21         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-18 16:03           ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-09-18 17:34             ` Arthur Miller [this message]
2021-09-18 17:31           ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-18 17:53             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-18 18:38               ` Arthur Miller

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