Re: mule-util and cl-seq loaded when opening c++ source file

[Kai Grossjohann <kai@emptydomain.de>]

"William Payne" <mikas493_no_spam@student.liu.se> writes:

> When I open a file that triggers my c++ mode, the last message I see in the 
> Messages buffer is:
>
> Loading mule-util...done
>
> what is that and is it something I need?
> the complete list is (plus my .emacs):
> Loading cc-mode...done
> Loading cl-seq...done
> Loading mule-util...done
>
> Obviously I want cc-mode, but what is cl-seq and mule-util. I would like to 
> remove them if it's not something I use.

Emacs automatically loaded these files for you, presumably because
they were needed by cc-mode or something.

cl-seq is part of the CL package which implements a subset of Common
Lisp in Emacs Lisp.  Judging from the name, cl-seq contains the Common
Lisp sequence functions.  Those are library functions to deal with
lists and arrays and suchlike.  I presume that they are used by the
functions in cc-mode.

mule-util is part of Mule, and Mule is part of Emacs these days.
(Emacs 19 was the last Emacs without Mule, and XEmacs can be compiled
with and without Mule even today, I believe.)  Mule allows you to edit
files in various encodings in the same Emacs executable.

Kai