Re: Generalizing find-definition

[David Engster]

Helmut Eller writes:
>> Too bad that classes can't be autoloaded.

They can. CEDET does that all the time.

>   ;;;###autoload (autoload 'etags-xref-backend "etags")
>   (defclass etags-xref-backend (xref-backend-class eieio-singleton) ())

Uhm, did you try to simply putting ";;;###autoload" before a class
definition? It should work just fine (through
`eieio-defclass-autoload').

However, there *is* a problem with autoloading classes, namely that
EIEIO should not be loaded at Emacs startup. This is why this feature is
currently restricted to the CEDET subsystem which is only loaded when
you activate Semantic or EDE.

-David