Re: Suggestion: Let the help command load autoloaded functions etc

[David Kastrup]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden> writes:

> David Kastrup writes:
>  > "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden> writes:
>
>  > > The file name probably has the full path, which is indeed too long.
>  > 
>  > I don't see why it should have the full path.
>
> Maybe it's just me (or just XEmacs), but I often end up with the
> "wrong" library (i.e., the installed one) in the buffer, when I want
> one from some source tree.  On reflection, this may mostly be a
> problem with XEmacs's separate package tree.

But printing the full file path (not present in the autocookie) in the
arg list will absolutely not change anything with regard to how the
libraries are found.

>  > The autoload cookies don't usually have this info in them, so there
>  > is no point in deriving and displaying it before the time of the
>  > load.
>
> (locate-library "LIBNAME") is not that expensive.

Sure, but it is pointless in the arglist.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum