From: Federico Beffa <beffa@ieee.org>
To: Catonano <catonano@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Danckaert <post@thomasdankaert.be>, help-guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Emacs autoloads
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2017 18:55:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877f47sgvg.fsf@lupo.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ98PDw9LP4p6Jkib_J_nf90K+7pA7YMUMbh9kXTKKg-sAgodg@mail.gmail.com> (catonano@gmail.com's message of "Thu, 2 Mar 2017 15:42:06 +0100")
Catonano <catonano@gmail.com> writes:
> Isn't the autoload machinery meant to avoid the explicit require ?
As far as I understand 'autoload' tells Emacs that a function does exit
and where to find it, without Emacs having to load the whole file
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/elisp.html#Autoload. It is
used to tell Emacs about the most important functions such as
'debbugs-gnu'. It doesn't know about 'debbugs-gnu-all-packages' because
it is not autoloaded (see debbugs-gnu.el). Once you load the whole
file, you will see everything.
Regards,
Fede
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-02 17:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-02 11:51 Emacs autoloads Catonano
2017-03-02 13:13 ` Thomas Danckaert
2017-03-02 21:31 ` Alex Kost
2017-03-02 13:35 ` Federico Beffa
2017-03-02 14:42 ` Catonano
2017-03-02 17:55 ` Federico Beffa [this message]
2017-03-02 21:33 ` Alex Kost
2017-03-02 21:30 ` Alex Kost
2017-03-02 23:49 ` Catonano
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