From cc9fea52a3cd8d3e7c264cc54b724cf691b4d280 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev>
Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2026 02:06:52 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] etags--xref-backend: Move the definition to autoloads

* lisp/progmodes/etags.el (etags--xref-backend):
Move the definition to autoloads, so that etags.el doesn't have to
be loaded before it really is used.
---
 lisp/progmodes/etags.el | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lisp/progmodes/etags.el b/lisp/progmodes/etags.el
index aa83022fe47..f7532fce6b1 100644
--- a/lisp/progmodes/etags.el
+++ b/lisp/progmodes/etags.el
@@ -2114,7 +2114,11 @@ file name, add `tag-partial-file-name-match-p' to the list value.")
   :type 'boolean
   :version "28.1")
 
-;;;###autoload
+;;;###autoload (defun etags--xref-backend ()
+;;;###autoload   (when (or tags-table-list tags-file-name)
+;;;###autoload     (load "etags")
+;;;###autoload     'etags))
+
 (defun etags--xref-backend ()
   (when (or tags-table-list tags-file-name)
     'etags))