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authorStefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>2009-04-28 19:00:38 +0000
committerStefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>2009-04-28 19:00:38 +0000
commit0a56bf8c52c6f6448a0ee97cab75a0b6fafca5ca (patch)
treeb3cd5096fdbcd7666362ed584152f30f88244658
parent5bd662049710d8c7901d65b2e938ef8bd8da0bdd (diff)
downloademacs-0a56bf8c52c6f6448a0ee97cab75a0b6fafca5ca.tar.gz
(load-library): Improve docstring.
-rw-r--r--lisp/files.el11
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/files.el b/lisp/files.el
index 878f8a3e333..b14ccc2be5c 100644
--- a/lisp/files.el
+++ b/lisp/files.el
@@ -829,12 +829,11 @@ Return nil if COMMAND is not found anywhere in `exec-path'."
(locate-file command exec-path exec-suffixes 1))
(defun load-library (library)
- "Load the library named LIBRARY.
-
-LIBRARY should be a relative file name of the library, a string.
-It can omit the suffix (a.k.a. file-name extension).
-
-This is an interface to the function `load'."
+ "Load the Emacs Lisp library named LIBRARY.
+This is one of two interfaces (the other being `load-file') to the underlying
+function `load'. The library actually loaded is searched for in `load-path'
+with or without the `load-suffixes' (as well as `load-file-rep-suffixes').
+See Info node `(emacs)Lisp Libraries' for more details."
(interactive
(list (completing-read "Load library: "
(apply-partially 'locate-file-completion-table