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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Lawrence Mitchell'" <wence@gmx.li>, <10929@debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#10929: 24.0.94; `psetq' is autoloaded but not recognized in `emacs -Q'
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 09:06:35 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <16830A0626EC45A3802C0558965B1791@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878vjj2b3t.fsf@gmx.li>

> The autoloads for cl functions/macros are in
> cl-loaddefs.el.  When you load cl.el it loads
> cl-loaddefs.el autoloading additional names without
> loading the files immediately.

Yes, I know all that.  But thanks anyway - I probably wasn't clear enough.

My question really is, I guess, whether users should be able to get help about
such macros without first loading cl.el.

Autoloading has a couple different (but related) purposes.  One of them helps
Emacs be the self-documenting editor it claims to be.






  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-02 17:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-02 16:51 bug#10929: 24.0.94; `psetq' is autoloaded but not recognized in `emacs -Q' Drew Adams
2012-03-02 16:58 ` Lawrence Mitchell
2012-03-02 17:06   ` Drew Adams [this message]
2012-05-30 18:04     ` Glenn Morris

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