From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Samuel Bronson <naesten@gmail.com>
Cc: 'Chong Yidong' <cyd@gnu.org>, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Loading when viewing docstring of autoloaded function
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2012 14:15:46 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvbojyrpz7.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9FBF49AD-A067-4B27-80AA-7A2A41B85F25@gmail.com> (Samuel Bronson's message of "Mon, 2 Jul 2012 13:20:20 -0400")
>>> instances. Some packages, like it or not, do things that may be
>>> undesirable when you so much as load them.
>> These are bugs that need fixing anyway.
> Yes, well, keep in mind that not all packages are part of Emacs,
Don't worry: it's hard to forget.
> and some of their maintainers might think otherwise.
They're simply wrong, and wronger by the minute.
Emacs already loads file in various occasions without an explicit call
to `load' or `require' and even more so for files that have autoloaded
functions.
They may not like it, but they'll have to adapt,
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-02 18:15 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
2012-07-02 16:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-07-02 17:20 ` Samuel Bronson
2012-07-02 18:15 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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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