Re: Requiring elisp that comes with Emacs

[Skip Montanaro]

On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 8:39 AM, Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es> wrote:

> Type
>
> C-h f require [ENTER]
>
> A *Help* buffer will popup with the docstring for `require'. There it is
> explained that the file for the require-d package is inferred from the
> package name.
>

Thanks. When I said "this is all speculation", I meant how it works under
the covers (how it compares semantically to Python's import statement or
C++'s namespace statement), not how it locates a file to load. I realize
that require uses the argument symbol name as the basename of the source
file.

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