Re: Two questions about thumbs.el

[storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm)]

Juanma Barranquero <jmbarranquero@wke.es> writes:

> Third question (yeah, I lied on the subject): There are at least eight
> versions of the time-less-p code:
> 
> calendar/time-date: time-less-p
> calendar/timeclock: timeclock-time-less-p
> pcomplete:          pcomplete-time-less-p
> speedbar:           speedbar-check-obj-this-line (fragment)
> thumbs:             time-less-p
> autoload:           autoload-before-p
> eshell/esh-util:    eshell-time-less-p
> net/tramp-smb:      tramp-smb-time-less-p (fragment)
> 
> speedbar, eshell and tramp have a life outside of Emacs, so they need
> their own definitions for compatibility, but the others could be
> "reunified" by using calendar/time-date's version (time-date.elc is
> quite small, about 4K).

This functionality is obviously generally useful.
Maybe time-less-p should be defined in subr.el?

> Note: I'm not sure about autoload, because without testing it I don't
> know if there'll be a problem for autoload to use an autoloaded function.

I don't this that's a problem, but in any case defining it in subr.el
would fix that nevertheless.

-- 
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk> http://www.cua.dk