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Subject: Re: why alias man to woman doesn't work?
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>> (defalias 'man 'woman)
>> (eval-after-load 'woman '(defalias 'man 'woman))
> Do I understand correctly that the above code will load `woman' when being
> parsed, while:

No.

>      (eval-after-load "woman" '(defalias 'man 'woman))

> would wait until woman was invoked by some other command?

If you remove the first line, then M-x man will not load woman.


        Stefan