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Re: Suggestion: Let the help command load autoloaded functions etc
From: |
Jason Rumney |
Subject: |
Re: Suggestion: Let the help command load autoloaded functions etc |
Date: |
Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:44:26 +0000 |
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Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) |
Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
> Richard Stallman wrote:
>> Wouldn't it be good if the help functions loaded autoloaded
>> functions etc? At least I believe this would make it a bit less
>> confusing for newbies. And the penalty should not be big, or?
>>
>> These functions give information about Emacs. I think it would be
>> very undesirable for them to alter the state they are examining.
>
> But loading a library should not change the state of Emacs, or? Is not
> that one of the design goals?
Of course loading a library changes the state of Emacs. At very least,
it increases the memory footprint.
What benefit do you suppose would be gained from doing this?
- Suggestion: Let the help command load autoloaded functions etc, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2007/12/19
- Re: Suggestion: Let the help command load autoloaded functions etc, Richard Stallman, 2007/12/20
- Re: Suggestion: Let the help command load autoloaded functions etc, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2007/12/21
- Re: Suggestion: Let the help command load autoloaded functions etc,
Jason Rumney <=
- Re: Suggestion: Let the help command load autoloaded functions etc, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2007/12/21
- Re: Suggestion: Let the help command load autoloaded functions etc, Jason Rumney, 2007/12/21
- Re: Suggestion: Let the help command load autoloaded functions etc, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2007/12/21
- Re: Suggestion: Let the help command load autoloaded functions etc, Leo, 2007/12/21
- Re: Suggestion: Let the help command load autoloaded functions etc, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2007/12/21
- Re: Suggestion: Let the help command load autoloaded functions etc, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/12/22
- Re: Suggestion: Let the help command load autoloaded functions etc, Richard Stallman, 2007/12/22
- Re: Suggestion: Let the help command load autoloaded functions etc, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2007/12/22
- Re: Suggestion: Let the help command load autoloaded functions etc, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2007/12/22
- Re: Suggestion: Let the help command load autoloaded functions etc, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2007/12/22