[slime-devel] Daily ChangeLog diff

[Tobias C. Rittweiler]

Mark Harig <idirectscm at aim.com> writes:

>> Index: slime/ChangeLog
>> diff -u slime/ChangeLog:1.2036 slime/ChangeLog:1.2042
>> --- slime/ChangeLog:1.2036  Tue Mar 16 12:20:07 2010
>> +++ slime/ChangeLog Thu Mar 18 14:24:25 2010
>>
>> ...
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>> +2010-03-18  Tobias C. Rittweiler <tcr at freebits.de>
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>> +   Add an ATTACH-GDB restart to SLDB.
>> +
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>> ...
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>> +   * slime.el (slime-dispatch-event): Add clause for :gdb-attach.
>> +   (slime-attach-gdb): New.
>> +
>
> The new function `slime-attach-gdb' references the function `gud-gdb'
> and the variable `gud-comint-buffer', which are defined in Emacs's
> gud.el, but does not include
>
>  (require 'gud)
>
> Was this omission intentional?

Under what circumstances is it necessary to explicitly require packages?
Won't the autoload magic do that automatically?

  -T.