Subject: Re: bug#53981: 28.0.91; shortdoc: Add support for outline-minor-mode

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2022 19:34:46 +0200

> From: Juri Linkov <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2022 19:24:32 +0200
> 
> BTW, the patch uses functions from text-property-search.el.
> But these useful functions are still not autoloaded.
> Here is the patch to autoload them:

I don't necessarily disagree, but do we have any policies or
guidelines regarding when to autoload a function?  It saves us a
'require', but what we "gain" instead is a (small) inflation of the
base memory footprint of the Emacs process.  So it isn't free.

Lars, Stefan, any comments?