Re: Loading when viewing docstring of autoloaded function

[Stefan Monnier]

>>> instances.  Some packages, like it or not, do things that may be
>>> undesirable when you so much as load them.
>> These are bugs that need fixing anyway.
> Yes, well, keep in mind that not all packages are part of Emacs,

Don't worry: it's hard to forget.

> and some of their maintainers might think otherwise.

They're simply wrong, and wronger by the minute.

Emacs already loads file in various occasions without an explicit call
to `load' or `require' and even more so for files that have autoloaded
functions.

They may not like it, but they'll have to adapt,


        Stefan