From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Mark Oteiza <mvoteiza@udel.edu>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: help-fns unsolicited elisp loading (was Re: bug#28048: 26.0.50; behaviour of C-h f semantic-mode)
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2017 00:28:30 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAM-tV--xYKNJcb73T1wigJ2upsakj-45yjM3QerYi+NNxiiB5w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170922040909.5vcbffvvyn7hoexr@logos.localdomain>
On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 12:09 AM, Mark Oteiza <mvoteiza@udel.edu> wrote:
> On 12/08/17 at 01:47am, npostavs@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
>> Mark Oteiza <mvoteiza@udel.edu> writes:
>>
>> > Is there a bug associated with the new C-h f behaviour?
>>
>> No, it was introduced on emacs-devel, see [1] and followups.
>>
>> [1]: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2016-05/msg00441.html
>
> Now I know why I'd get seemingly random messages about MH-E not being
> present on my system.
>
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=fd8084aaf9
>
> Why are we loading (effectively) arbitrary elisp without the user asking
> for it? Any elisp in Emacs--including installed 3rdp packages--can get
> loaded when looking for function or variable help.
I believe it's only elisp included in Emacs proper that is eligible
for this lookup. The table is built during 'make autoloads'.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-22 4:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-11 14:42 bug#28048: 26.0.50; behaviour of C-h f semantic-mode Mark Oteiza
2017-08-11 15:51 ` Glenn Morris
2017-08-11 16:22 ` Mark Oteiza
2017-08-12 1:47 ` npostavs
2017-09-22 4:09 ` help-fns unsolicited elisp loading (was Re: bug#28048: 26.0.50; behaviour of C-h f semantic-mode) Mark Oteiza
2017-09-22 4:28 ` Noam Postavsky [this message]
2017-09-23 14:50 ` Mark Oteiza
2017-09-23 15:38 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-08-12 17:42 ` bug#28048: 26.0.50; behaviour of C-h f semantic-mode Glenn Morris
2017-08-12 17:46 ` Glenn Morris
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