Catonano <[email protected]> writes: > Isn't the autoload machinery meant to avoid the explicit require ?
As far as I understand 'autoload' tells Emacs that a function does exit and where to find it, without Emacs having to load the whole file https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/elisp.html#Autoload. It is used to tell Emacs about the most important functions such as 'debbugs-gnu'. It doesn't know about 'debbugs-gnu-all-packages' because it is not autoloaded (see debbugs-gnu.el). Once you load the whole file, you will see everything. Regards, Fede
