From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: update-subdirs and lisp/term Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:36:31 +0200 Message-ID: <833a67shhs.fsf@gnu.org> References: <831vlut4sy.fsf@gnu.org> <83ws3mrm6f.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1254119689 5981 80.91.229.12 (28 Sep 2009 06:34:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 06:34:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 28 08:34:42 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ms9on-0005Xn-OW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:34:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55314 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ms9om-0003MI-Hq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 02:34:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ms9of-0003MC-Ol for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 02:34:33 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ms9oe-0003M0-0n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 02:34:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53159 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ms9od-0003Lx-Sg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 02:34:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout1.012.net.il ([84.95.2.1]:36481) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ms9ob-0005FN-6p; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 02:34:29 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.i-mtaout1.012.net.il by i-mtaout1.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KQO003004WM2V00@i-mtaout1.012.net.il>; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:34:27 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.56.156]) by i-mtaout1.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KQO00A2J4XFEZ90@i-mtaout1.012.net.il>; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:34:27 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9.1 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:115710 Archived-At: > From: Richard Stallman > CC: schwab@linux-m68k.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:43:41 -0400 > > > Because files in lisp/term are always loaded with the term/ prefix. > > Thanks. But why is that a good idea? A remnant from past, perhaps, > when lisp/term held only terminal-specific files? > > Omitting this directory speeds up searches for other files. This might have been a good reason back when term/ was the only subdirectory in lisp/ (Emacs 19.x). But nowadays we have 21 subdirectories besides term/ (and soon we will have 5 more). Does a single directory really make a difference?