Lin Jian e7820571fc mu: generate mu4e-autoloads.el ... * What is autoload? Basically, it allows you to delay the loading of a package[1]. * What is a name-autoloads.el file? When installing a package using package.el, Emacs generates[1] a name-autoloads.el file for that package, which is used to autoload the principal user commands defined[2][3] in the package. * What problem does this patch solve? There are some autoload commands defined[3] by mu4e. Before, those autoload commands cannot be autoloaded because of the missing mu4e-autoloads.el file since mu4e installed from nixpkgs does not use package.el. This patch fixes that. To sum up, with this patch, you can call (mu4e) without calling (require 'mu4e) first. * Isn't it better to contribute to the build system of the upstream mu project to generate that mu4e-autoloads.el file? It seems impossible[4] to do so. [1]: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Autoload.html [2]: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Packaging-Basics.html [3]: 581f8d7e92/mu4e/mu4e.el (L58) [4]: https://github.com/djcb/mu/pull/2313		2023-05-18 08:04:40 -03:00
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