From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Samuel Bronson'" <naesten@gmail.com>
Cc: 'Chong Yidong' <cyd@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: Loading when viewing docstring of autoloaded function
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 09:13:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E06082B99FD24339BDB1542FD482A6D8@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F4806943-E111-44BA-962A-0ABABB6245C2@gmail.com>
> >> The most annoying aspect is that autoloaded functions often have
> >> docstrings containing key substitution constructs, which
> >> are expanded into `M-x FOO' because the relevant keymaps are
> >> not yet defined.
> >
> > Let the user decide. Add a user option. Make your new
> > behavior the default, if you like. But give users an easy
> > way to choose not to load stuff just for doc strings. The code
> > change is trivial - it costs nothing to give users a say.
>
> How about just adding a "load module and rerender" button to the
> *Help* buffer in that case?
>
> I've been annoyed by such docstrings, but at the same time I can see
> myself being much *more* annoyed at the proposed "just load it"
> solution in certain instances. Some packages, like it or not, do
> things that may be undesirable when you so much as load them.
Good, but again: give users the choice. That behavior could be one of the
option values.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-02 16:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-23 9:44 Loading when viewing docstring of autoloaded function Chong Yidong
2012-06-23 13:07 ` Drew Adams
2012-07-02 15:47 ` Samuel Bronson
2012-07-02 16:13 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2012-07-02 16:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-07-02 17:20 ` Samuel Bronson
2012-07-02 18:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-06-23 14:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-06-23 20:22 ` Štěpán Němec
2012-06-24 5:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-06-24 6:25 ` Leo
2012-06-24 6:39 ` Andreas Röhler
2012-06-24 9:03 ` Chong Yidong
2012-06-24 14:38 ` Andreas Röhler
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