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28.0.91; shortdoc: Add support for outline-minor-mode

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Message #61 received at 53981 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>,
 Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: mail <at> daniel-mendler.de, 53981 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#53981: 28.0.91; shortdoc: Add support for outline-minor-mode
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2022 19:34:46 +0200

> From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
> Cc: mail <at> daniel-mendler.de,  53981 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 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?

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