RE: autoload cookies for defcustoms

[Drew Adams]

> > Is there a policy, for the Lisp code distributed with
> > Emacs, about using autoload cookies for defcustoms?
> > If so, what is it?
> 
> We had a discussion about that in November:
>   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2009-11/msg00504.html
> 
> The conclusion there was that all defcustoms (~7000) can't be
> autoloaded but that we can probably set it up so that completion of
> options knows all option names (and maybe apropos can know about them
> too).

Yes, but even though that is somewhat related, it does not address the questions
I raised. In particular (but not only): what is the current policy about when to
add an autoload cookie?

> But we did not finish that. I think I have some more things to test
> there, but anyone who want to join is of course wellcome.

That is a different topic. My questions are about the current autoload-cookie
policy.