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

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

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.

 > 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.