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? I 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
