From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Clarification of eval-after-load [was: Problem mit symlinks, locate-library and load-history] Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 00:15:43 -0400 Message-ID: References: <58982.128.165.123.132.1147365967.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> <59119.128.165.123.132.1147369590.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1147407658 15272 80.91.229.2 (12 May 2006 04:20:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 04:20:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: acm@muc.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 12 06:20:57 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@gmane.org Original-Received: from mail-relay.eunet.no ([193.71.71.242]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FeP8z-0001QO-97 for ged-emacs-devel@gmane.org; Fri, 12 May 2006 06:20:49 +0200 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org (lists.gnu.org [199.232.76.165]) by mail-relay.eunet.no (8.13.1/8.13.1/GN) with ESMTP id k4C4KWbR081090 for ; Fri, 12 May 2006 06:20:44 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org) Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FeP8Z-0002hU-8t for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 May 2006 00:20:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FeP4x-0006lD-AJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 May 2006 00:16:39 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FeP4w-0006kP-Lh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 May 2006 00:16:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FeP4w-0006kB-Am for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 May 2006 00:16:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FeP6H-0005nV-0h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 May 2006 00:18:01 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1FeP43-0002PE-TM; Fri, 12 May 2006 00:15:43 -0400 Original-To: herring@lanl.gov In-reply-to: <59119.128.165.123.132.1147369590.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> (herring@lanl.gov) 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:54301 Archived-At: Maybe during preloading `load-history' should get the short names (e.g., "font-lock", "simple") of loaded files, and then at real startup do the canonicalization before loading anything that would need to use `eval-after-load'? That is what already happens. See line 645 in startup.el. That being so, is it obvious how to fix this bug?