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From: "Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org>
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Subject: Re: Should autoloaded functions show LIB.el for its location?
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 23:38:43 -0500
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    The only good alternative I can think of otherwise is to do a locate-library
    to find the file that would be used if the function were to be loaded.

Since we would only do this on a specific function when the user asks
for it, it would not be too inefficient.  So this seems ok.