From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How does M-x completion works Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:10:56 -0700 Message-ID: References: <4b82ff9b$0$279$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1266984998 11486 80.91.229.12 (24 Feb 2010 04:16:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 04:16:38 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 24 05:16:35 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nk8fd-0002Rp-Ui for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:16:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58825 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nk8fa-0006OR-1v for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:16:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Nk8eW-00067L-03 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:15:12 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=56776 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nk8eV-00066x-0v for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:15:11 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nk8eU-00088G-AF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:15:11 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:49801) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nk8eU-000889-3w for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:15:10 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nk8eN-0001hx-QO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:15:03 +0100 Original-Received: from c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([71.237.24.138]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:15:03 +0100 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:15:03 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Macintosh/20090812) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:72086 Archived-At: Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne) wrote: > Le Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:06:45 +0100, Colin S. Miller >> An emacs autoload is where a function can be registered with emacs, but >> not actually loaded. >> When the function is first used in this instance of emacs, the defining >> library is automatically loaded, and then the function is called as >> per usual. >> This allows emacs to provide a lot of functionality without the memory >> and start-up >> over head of actually loading the function at start up. > Yes, I've seen about section 15.1 and 15.5 in the Emacs Lisp reference. > Something else also takes part here : a file named loaddefs.el, which > contains a list of autoload definitions (which seems to confirm Emacs is > not scanning modules at start up). I've also tried to remove this file, > this does not change anything. See also E.1 (Building Emacs), specifically the parts about dumping. -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA