From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Split `simple.el'? Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2018 09:12:54 +0300 Message-ID: <83muyj4hzt.fsf@gnu.org> References: <5f1e960c-483f-4902-b4c2-b7a4ca3b04f4@default> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1522822287 11402 195.159.176.226 (4 Apr 2018 06:11:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2018 06:11:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 04 08:11:23 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1f3bde-0002nq-Em for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Apr 2018 08:11:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36544 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f3bfj-000538-So for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Apr 2018 02:13:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49770) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f3bf5-00052Y-Rb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Apr 2018 02:12:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f3bf2-0001MX-Ld for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Apr 2018 02:12:47 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:33223) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f3bf2-0001MR-Hk; Wed, 04 Apr 2018 02:12:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3583 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1f3bf1-0004uB-Pk; Wed, 04 Apr 2018 02:12:44 -0400 In-reply-to: <5f1e960c-483f-4902-b4c2-b7a4ca3b04f4@default> (message from Drew Adams on Tue, 3 Apr 2018 14:41:11 -0700 (PDT)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:224301 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2018 14:41:11 -0700 (PDT) > From: Drew Adams > > Could we maybe split `simple.el'? > > Because there are a few parts of it that contain odd characters, > when I visit it it takes almost 2 minutes (!) for it to finally > get displayed. I rarely need to access those parts of the file > that are problematic - I typically just want to see the code for > some relatively common function. > > The file is also quite large. > > How about splitting it up, in particular, moving the parts that > use oddball chars to a different file? As long as the VCS we use doesn't support well moving stuff from one file to another, I submit that we should resist the temptation of splitting files or moving stuff between files as much as we can.