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

[Jason Rumney]

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?