* bug#25604: Autoloads fake functions in foreign packages
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@ 2018-04-12 19:34 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen @ 2018-04-12 19:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Tim Landscheidt; +Cc: 25604
Tim Landscheidt <tim@tim-landscheidt.de> writes:
> With Gnus v5.13/GNU Emacs 25.1.1 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu,
> GTK+ Version 3.22.4) of 2016-12-15, after loading
> gnus-art.el, C-h f w3 TAB completes to
> w3m-toggle-inline-images even though I have not installed
> the w3m package. This is due to gnus-art.el's:
>
> | (autoload 'w3m-toggle-inline-images "w3m")
>
> AFAIUI, this should be rewritten as:
>
> | (declare-function w3m-toggle-inline-images "w3m")
>
> so that the compiler remains quiet, but the function does
> not falsely appear to be existing.
Thanks; I've applied this to Emacs 27.1.
> There are a lot of these in Gnus (cf. "git grep
> '^[^;]*(autoload' -- lisp/gnus
> ':(exclude)lisp/gnus/ChangeLog.*'") and Emacs overall, so a
> larger clean-up might be useful.
Using autoload in these forms is mostly annoying when they refer to
packages not distributed with Emacs -- the other ones are mostly
harmless.
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