- Put a call to
provideat the end of each separate Lisp file.
provideandrequireare an alternative toautoloadfor loading files automatically. They work in terms of named features. Autoloading is triggered by calling a specific function, but a feature is loaded the first time another program asks for it by name.
Use of require ensures that the file will only be loaded once.
Emacs Lisp files are searched from the load path.