GNU bug report logs - #10929
24.0.94; `psetq' is autoloaded but not recognized in `emacs -Q'

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 16:53:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: notabug, wontfix

Found in version 24.0.94

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 10929 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: "'Lawrence Mitchell'" <wence <at> gmx.li>, <10929 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: RE: bug#10929: 24.0.94;
	`psetq' is autoloaded but not recognized in `emacs -Q'
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 09:06:35 -0800

> The autoloads for cl functions/macros are in
> cl-loaddefs.el.  When you load cl.el it loads
> cl-loaddefs.el autoloading additional names without
> loading the files immediately.

Yes, I know all that.  But thanks anyway - I probably wasn't clear enough.

My question really is, I guess, whether users should be able to get help about
such macros without first loading cl.el.

Autoloading has a couple different (but related) purposes.  One of them helps
Emacs be the self-documenting editor it claims to be.
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