Re: help-fns unsolicited elisp loading (was Re: bug#28048: 26.0.50; behaviour of C-h f semantic-mode)

[Noam Postavsky]

On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 12:09 AM, Mark Oteiza <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 12/08/17 at 01:47am, address@hidden wrote:
>> Mark Oteiza <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>> > Is there a bug associated with the new C-h f behaviour?
>>
>> No, it was introduced on emacs-devel, see [1] and followups.
>>
>> [1]: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2016-05/msg00441.html
>
> Now I know why I'd get seemingly random messages about MH-E not being
> present on my system.
>
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=fd8084aaf9
>
> Why are we loading (effectively) arbitrary elisp without the user asking
> for it?  Any elisp in Emacs--including installed 3rdp packages--can get
> loaded when looking for function or variable help.

I believe it's only elisp included in Emacs proper that is eligible
for this lookup. The table is built during 'make autoloads'.