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From: thomas%spline.uucp@utah-gr.UUCP (Spencer W. Thomas)
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Subject: Re: Auto-load gripe
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Date: Mon, 24-Aug-87 13:51:28 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 24 13:51:28 1987
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In article <1068@theory.cs.cmu.edu> dld@theory.cs.cmu.edu (David Detlefs) writes:
>It would have made sense to me that when I put, say
>(autoload 'ispell-buffer "ispell")
>in my .emacs file, that thereafter 'ispell-buffer would be treated as
>a known command.

Ah, but if you read the documentation for the autoload function, you
will see that there are more than 3 arguments.  In particular:

  Third arg DOCSTRING is documentation for the function.
  Fourth arg INTERACTIVE if non-nil says function can be called interactively.

Thus, you should be saying
(autoload 'ispell-buffer "ispell" "Run ispell on the current buffer" T)

If you don't, the missing arguments default to NIL, and ispell-buffer
is assumed to not be an interactively callable command.

=Spencer   ({ihnp4,decvax}!utah-cs!thomas, thomas@cs.utah.edu)