Re: rec-mode: No autoload for `rec-mode'

[Jose E. Marchesi]

Hi Liliana.
Thanks for reaching out.

> Hello everyone,
>
> typically, Elisp libraries that provide major modes, such as c-mode or
> org-mode, use an autoload cookie to have them be known even if the mode
> itself is not yet loaded.  This allows Emacs to load the major mode as-
> needed, e.g. when the rec-file declares "mode: rec" in its file-local
> variables or the ".rec" ending is added through auto-mode-alist and
> books.rec is opened.  Such an autoload is currently missing in both
> version 1.5 (bundled with the latest recutils release) and version
> 1.8/git master.  While users can easily autoload functions on their
> own, I think this ought to be provided from upstream :)

The latest versions of rec-mode are available via ELPA.  They feature
;;;###autoload marks.