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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
	Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
Cc: "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 16:03:16 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <SJ0PR10MB54881802B4348A86576CE0E7F3DE9@SJ0PR10MB5488.namprd10.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bl4qt3y3.fsf@gnus.org>

> 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.



  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-18 16:03 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           ` Drew Adams [this message]
2021-09-18 17:34             ` [External] : " Arthur Miller
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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