From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Changes in lisp/Makefile.in to skip preloaded files Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 09:50:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <200910061650.n96GotMY024748@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> References: <837hv9neza.fsf@gnu.org> <8363asoov2.fsf@gnu.org> <833a5woo3g.fsf@gnu.org> <200910061312.n96DCIqW023100@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1254848278 12048 80.91.229.12 (6 Oct 2009 16:57:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 16:57:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Miles Bader , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 06 18:57:49 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MvDMC-0006rH-Qy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:57:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59607 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MvDMC-00065n-Ji for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:57:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MvDLc-0005T5-9Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:57:12 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MvDLX-0005Mh-8L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:57:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33026 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MvDLW-0005MW-Sd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:57:06 -0400 Original-Received: from colin-baker-v0.ics.uci.edu ([128.195.1.153]:52798) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MvDLS-0002MU-BB; Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:57:02 -0400 Original-Received: from godzilla.ics.uci.edu (godzilla.ics.uci.edu [128.195.10.101]) by colin-baker-v0.ics.uci.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n96Gothi005538; Tue, 6 Oct 2009 09:50:55 -0700 Original-Received: (from dann@localhost) by godzilla.ics.uci.edu (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.6/Submit) id n96GotMY024748; Tue, 6 Oct 2009 09:50:55 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Glenn Morris's message of "Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:20:51 -0400") Original-Lines: 15 X-ICS-MailScanner-Information: Please send mail to helpdesk@ics.uci.edu or more information X-ICS-MailScanner-ID: n96Gothi005538 X-ICS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ICS-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-1.44, required 5, autolearn=disabled, ALL_TRUSTED -1.44) X-ICS-MailScanner-From: dann@godzilla.ics.uci.edu X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:115934 Archived-At: Glenn Morris writes: > Dan Nicolaescu wrote: > > > IMO in this particular case it's just an unnecessary complication, the > > alternative is to remove the ;;;#autoload lines in the preloaded files. > > Which there are about 4, and only one of which has an important impact, > > the one in ediff-init.el .... > > I would like to add more such autoloads, since they serve as a useful > form of comment. Eg for riskiness properties. Honestly, that sounds like busy work. What can an autoload do more to a riskiness property that a comment does not do? riskiness properties are not exactly hard to understand, or hard to search for.