> Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> writes: > > >> Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, 59...@debbugs.gnu.org > >> From: David Masterson <dsmaster...@gmail.com> > >> Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2022 13:56:03 -0800 > >> > >> In my testing, I found a strange case where, in *scratch*, I get: > >> > >> (message "%s" org-version) > >> ;; Error undefined > >> ;; Do 'C-h v org-version' > >> (message "%s" org-version) > >> 9.3 > >> > >> So, 'describe-variable' on org-version causes Org to be loaded?!? > > > > Why is it so surprising? Is this the first time you see that a Help > > command loads something to do its job? > > Yes, it is surprising. How did Emacs know to load Org to find org-version?
This is provided for via emacs' autoload by prefix mechanism. See: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Autoload-by-Prefix.html What you observed will NOT happen if you first run: (clrhash definition-prefixes) > didn't request it to by this action. Or did it do a package-activate-all (or > similar) to ensure that everything was loaded? > That would be overkill. Sometimes the best answer is 'nil'. > > -- > David Masterson
