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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Suggestion: Let the help command load autoloaded functions etc
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 01:29:48 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1J5xro-0001ln-Q9@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <476B7BA6.80903@gmail.com> (lennart.borgman@gmail.com)

    But loading a library should not change the state of Emacs, or? Is not 
    that one of the design goals?

Loading a library will at least define new functions and variables.
I would rather that the help functions not even change things that way.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-12-22  6:29 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
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 [this message]

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