From: "Robert J. Chassell" <bob@rattlesnake.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Suggestion: Let the help command load autoloaded functions etc
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 11:23:16 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1J62Ro-002K4LC@rattlesnake.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <476CEA0B.1090501@gmail.com> (lennart.borgman@gmail.com)
> > If help command load autoloaded functions, it'll be EXTREMELY annoying.
>
> Could you please explain why?
Not all of us have large memories or hard disks in our computers. We
often do not want to load extraneous libraries but do want to find out
about functions in them.
Help about a function or variable should only tell about it,
not do anything else.
`Autoloading' exists to load automatically. Help exists to help us.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-22 11:23 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 [this message]
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
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