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From: | Kevin Rodgers |
Subject: | Re: How does M-x completion works |
Date: | Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:10:56 -0700 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Macintosh/20090812) |
Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne) wrote:
Le Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:06:45 +0100, Colin S. MillerAn emacs autoload is where a function can be registered with emacs, but not actually loaded. When the function is first used in this instance of emacs, the defininglibrary is automatically loaded, and then the function is called as per usual. This allows emacs to provide a lot of functionality without the memory and start-upover head of actually loading the function at start up.Yes, I've seen about section 15.1 and 15.5 in the Emacs Lisp reference.Something else also takes part here : a file named loaddefs.el, which contains a list of autoload definitions (which seems to confirm Emacs is not scanning modules at start up). I've also tried to remove this file, this does not change anything.
See also E.1 (Building Emacs), specifically the parts about dumping. -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA
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