Re: reading/writing binary data in structured form

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 09:05:53 +0200 (CEST)
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
> 
> > > BTW, it's quite hard to find that package IMHO within Emacs; the
> > > only sensible way which comes to my mind is using `C-h p', going
> > > to section `data'.  [...]
> >
> > Maybe try `apropos-documentation'.
> 
> Hmm, `apropos-documentation bindat' gives just this result:
> 
>   risky-local-variable-p
>     Function: Non-nil if SYM could be dangerous as a file-local variable.
>   It is dangerous if either of these conditions are met:

I guess that's because there are no autoload cookies in bindat.el for
anything whose doc string would be picked up by your apropos command.

Kim, is there a reason not to make bindat-pack and bindat-unpack
autoloaded?