Matt, > I'm not too familiar with how emacs handles autoloads. However, I find > org-mouse is automatically loaded if I call describe-function and then > tab complete after typing "", "org-", "org-m", etc. This seems enough > to load the entirely of the org-mouse.el file.
i'm also not an expert on autoload, but i noticed this in the e-lisp info pages: ---- Autoload by Prefix During completion for the commands ‘describe-variable’ and ‘describe-function’, Emacs will try to load files which may contain definitions matching the prefix being completed. ---- and, i wonder if that at least explains part of your question. cheers, Greg