Subject: bug#38006: 27.0.50; C-h w doesn't appear to work with autoloaded commands

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 17:30:21 +0100

On Okt 31 2019, Philipp Stephani wrote:

> emacs -Q
> C-h w 2C-two-columns RET
> Output is "2C-two-columns is not on any key".
> However, <f2> <f2> runs 2C-two-columns.
> This means that apparently C-h w doesn't work with autoloaded commands
> that aren't yet loaded.  It would be nice if this worked.

The problem is that the keymap that is bound to f2 is autoloaded.  Emacs
does not know how that keymap looks like until it is loaded, and the
command isn't really bound until then.

Andreas.

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