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If I startup emacs with emacs -q, then emacs does not know about the command M-x View-goto-percent, (which allows one to hop around large files by percent value).

However, if I type C-h a percent (search apropos "percent"), it finds the View-goto-percent command and I can then use it thereafter.

Why is this happening, and what should I put in .emacs so that M-x View-goto-percent is available at startup?

My emacs version (M-x version) is:

GNU Emacs 23.3.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.6) of 2012-09-21 on roseapple, modified by Debian
unutbu
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  • With `emacs -q` `.emacs` won't be loaded, so I fail to see the point of your question. Generally, update to a recent Emacs release first. –  Jul 27 '13 at 00:26
  • The `emacs -q` is here to make the problem easily reproducible. I'm not using `-q` in real life :). – unutbu Jul 27 '13 at 02:04
  • Well, just `require` the file containing `View-goto-percent` (most likely `view.el`, hence `(require 'view)`). Or add an autoload `(autoload 'View-goto-percent "view")'. –  Jul 27 '13 at 11:01
  • Thanks, @lunaryorn. Would you like to post it as a solution? – unutbu Jul 27 '13 at 12:04
  • I added a corresponding answer. –  Jul 27 '13 at 13:07

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Just require the library containing View-goto-percent:

(require 'view)

Alternatively, create an autoload for this function to load it automatically on its first use:

(autoload 'View-goto-percent "view")
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View-goto-percent is of the minor-mode view, so you shoud enable the function with view-mode-enter

Peter Miehle
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