From: uzibalqa <uzibalqa@proton.me>
To: uzibalqa via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
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Subject: ;;;###autoload declarations
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2023 11:09:55 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <91a7W5OWdKtKD4A-ZeZZUeCLNTxNm82hYVDTZ-_uC1JiI1KzGZZVYF4HuUMdxyursZQ-CgIXKRziOKd2FRj9rL_7ADQ7Rjn7gu2CaCgSNA4=@proton.me> (raw)
Have been looking at the ;;;###autoload declaration. Reading through the manual,
the cookie just before the real definition of a function, indicates that a specific
function exists. Without such declaration, the function call would generate an error
because the required function has not been properly included in the code before
attempting to call the function. This is done so that emacs would not consume system
resources and slow down.
Yet, one still needs a call to "require" which loads the file and all its deffun's and
defvar's even without any use of the ;;;###autoload declaration.
It then seems to me that although autoloading is intended as described, technically
it is untrue, because everything seems to be evaluated all in one go.
What is going on ?
next reply other threads:[~2023-06-23 11:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-06-23 11:09 uzibalqa [this message]
2023-06-23 16:08 ` ;;;###autoload declarations Michael Heerdegen
2023-06-23 16:42 ` uzibalqa
2023-06-24 2:02 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-06-24 11:27 ` uzibalqa
2023-06-25 1:55 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-06-23 18:26 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-06-26 13:27 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2023-06-30 15:35 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-07-03 15:59 ` Drew Adams
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