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changeset 42769:c3e528c6c110
(Autoload): Explain how to autoload function definitions that use
unusual macros.
| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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| date | Wed, 16 Jan 2002 02:47:15 +0000 |
| parents | 5a0d18142c4a |
| children | a7530850a26c |
| files | lispref/loading.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/lispref/loading.texi Wed Jan 16 02:36:53 2002 +0000 +++ b/lispref/loading.texi Wed Jan 16 02:47:15 2002 +0000 @@ -478,6 +478,18 @@ documentation string in the @file{etc/DOC} file. @xref{Building Emacs}. See also the commentary in @file{lib-src/make-docfile.c}. + If you write a function definition with an unusual macro that is not +one of the known and recognized function definition methods, use of an +ordinary magic autoload comment would copy the whole definition into +@code{loaddefs.el}. That is not desirable. You can put the desired +@code{autoload} call into @code{loaddefs.el} instead by writing this: + +@smallexample +;;;###autoload (autoload 'foo "myfile") +(mydefunmacro foo + ...) +@end smallexample + @node Repeated Loading @section Repeated Loading @cindex repeated loading