Re: loaddefs.el and MH-E

[Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> If I say "make autoloads" in the lisp directory, loaddefs.el gets
> several autoload lines for MH-E symbols.  However, there's also the
> mh-loaddefs.el file in the mh-e subdirectory.  Can this cause any
> trouble?

Eli,

The loaddefs.el definitions are the entry points into MH-E and these
(few) definitions should be the only ones from MH-E loaded initially.
Once MH-E is loaded, the definitions in mh-loaddefs.el are loaded for
the support functions. The only trouble that it would cause to load the
mh-loaddefs.el prematurely is to make it difficult for the new user to
decide which of the hundreds of functions to choose. You shouldn't have
to worry about mh-loaddefs.el unless you changed the loading procedure
to load */*loaddefs.el when creating the Emacs image. You haven't done
that, have you?

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