"Cook, Malcolm" <m...@stowers.org> writes: >> 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)
Ah! Thank you. In many ways, I still think of Emacs from what I learned about it in the early 80s (yes, pre-Elisp). I didn't expect this and, so, didn't investigate the possibility that it's planned (the Info documentation has gotten huge). Apologies to Eli. -- David Masterson
