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[PATCH] Add autoload cookie to vc-git-grep

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Alyssa Ross <hi <at> alyssa.is>, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 67018 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#67018: [PATCH] Add autoload cookie to vc-git-grep
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2023 17:13:53 +0200

> From: Alyssa Ross <hi <at> alyssa.is>
> Cc: 67018 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2023 16:05:32 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> +;;;###autoload
> >>  (defun vc-git-grep (regexp &optional files dir)
> >>    "Run git grep, searching for REGEXP in FILES in directory DIR.
> >>  The search is limited to file names matching shell pattern FILES.
> >
> > Thanks, but please explain the motivation.  Which package needs to
> > autoload this function and why?
> 
> Often running M-x vc-git-grep is the first thing I do after starting
> Emacs.  I think it would be good if it was autoloaded, so I didn't have
> to M-x load-library vc-git first, or try to set up autoloading just for
> myself in my Emacs configuration.

By the same token we should autoload every command in every Lisp
package we have?  Because there are a lot of commands that are not
autoloaded, and you need to load their package to have them available.
I wonder what Dmitry and Stefan (both of them) think about this.

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