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From: David Masterson <dsmasterson@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: michel@schi.nz,  emacs-orgmode@gnu.org,  59882@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#59882: Multiple versions of Org in load-path problem
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2022 23:43:05 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <SJ0PR03MB54551B455DAEB936213DE09CA21C9@SJ0PR03MB5455.namprd03.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <835yel11x8.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 09 Dec 2022 09:17:23 +0200")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, 59882@debbugs.gnu.org
>> From: David Masterson <dsmasterson@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


  reply	other threads:[~2022-12-09  7:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-06  2:50 Multiple versions of Org in load-path problem David Masterson
2022-12-06  5:36 ` tomas
2022-12-06  7:04   ` David Masterson
2022-12-07 13:30 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-12-08  3:27   ` David Masterson
2022-12-08  7:16     ` David Masterson
2022-12-08  7:26       ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-12-08 18:24         ` David Masterson
2022-12-08 19:31           ` Michel Schinz
2022-12-08 21:56             ` David Masterson
2022-12-08 22:56               ` Tim Cross
2022-12-09  5:00                 ` David Masterson
2022-12-09  6:56                   ` Tim Cross
2022-12-09 15:49                     ` Sharon Kimble
2022-12-10 20:38                 ` Tom Gillespie
2022-12-09  7:17               ` bug#59882: " Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-09  7:43                 ` David Masterson [this message]
2022-12-09 11:57                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-09 19:40                   ` Cook, Malcolm
2022-12-09 19:51                     ` David Masterson
2022-12-09 20:27                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-10 14:01                 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-12-14  9:51                 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-12-14 12:59                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-14 13:37                     ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-12-14 14:35                       ` Stefan Monnier
2022-12-14 16:02                         ` Max Nikulin
2022-12-15  4:17                           ` Stefan Monnier
2022-12-15  4:56                             ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-12-16 12:36                             ` Max Nikulin
2022-12-16 14:47                               ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-12-18 15:24                                 ` Max Nikulin
2022-12-18 15:40                                   ` Stefan Monnier
2023-04-06 16:09                                     ` Max Nikulin
2023-04-06 21:25                                       ` Stefan Monnier
2023-04-19  4:20                                         ` Tom Gillespie
2022-12-25  9:48                                   ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-12-25 11:46                                     ` Max Nikulin
2022-12-26  8:44                                       ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-12-26 11:01                                         ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-12-26 12:25                                           ` Max Nikulin
2022-12-27  9:47                                             ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-12-27  9:56                                               ` Max Nikulin
2023-02-03 11:02                                                 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-03 12:15                                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-03 20:01                                                   ` Tim Cross
2023-02-14 22:53                                                     ` Gregor Zattler
2023-02-16 12:14                                                       ` Max Nikulin
2023-02-21  5:22                                                         ` Richard Stallman
2023-02-21 12:32                                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-21 17:26                                                             ` Bhavin Gandhi
2023-02-22 10:48                                                               ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-22 16:58                                                                 ` Bhavin Gandhi
2023-02-23  9:35                                                                   ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-04-06 15:02                                                   ` Max Nikulin
2022-12-14 14:25                     ` Stefan Monnier
2022-12-14 21:49                   ` Cook, Malcolm
2022-12-09 19:47               ` Cook, Malcolm
2022-12-08 21:50           ` Cook, Malcolm
     [not found]     ` <87o7se74bf.fsf@penguin>
2022-12-08  7:19       ` David Masterson
2022-12-08  9:10     ` Ihor Radchenko

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