Re: function doc string display

Stefan Monnier via "Emacs development discussions." <[email protected]> Wed, 05 Aug 2026 14:54:03 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.devel
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> The word "autoloaded" is confusing because it is ambiguous.
> The function indeed has an autoload definition, but "autoloaded"
> seems to say that it _has already been_ loaded that way.
> As you can see, this is the output C-h f shows if you
> have _not yet_ triggered autoloading of that definition.

We say "autoloaded" both when the function has already been loaded (but
was "autoloadable" before) and when it hasn't yet.

> A bigger change:
> If we could put the argument list into the `(autoload...)' form,

We can and we do.  This "arg list not available" message is the result
of a bug, IMO (AFAICT it affects functions of 0 arguments).


=== Stefan