bug#66022: 30.0.50; kmacro overwriting global keybindings

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2023 17:25:20 +0200
> From: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com>
> Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, 66022@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> On 23-09-18 17:18 , Gerd Möllmann wrote:
> > On 23-09-18 17:09 , Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >>> From: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com> Cc:
> >>> monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,  66022@debbugs.gnu.org Date: Mon, 18 Sep
> >>> 2023 16:56:55 +0200
> >>>
> >>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> >>>
> >>>> Any idea why a call to 'documentation' loads loaddefs?  Did you
> >>>> indeed "hack the Emacs you were running"?
> >>>
> >>> No idea, and I didn't hack it at all.  This was a minute after I
> >>> started a newly-build Emacs, wondered why a C-c C-k binding didn't
> >>> work.  I then pressed C-c alone to see what it is bound to, with
> >>> which-key.
> >>
> >> So I think this now becomes the main question.  If this is not a
> >> bug, i.e. if loaddefs can legitimately be loaded mid-session, we
> >> cannot autoload key bindings, at least not naïvely as we do now.
> > 
> > Another observation: when I start emacs from its source directory
> > master/src, and not as bundle, i.e. by® clicking on Emacs.app in the
> > dock, this doesn't happen.
> > 
> > One difference in the two scenarios is that Emacs.app contains gzip'd el
> > files.
> 
> ~/emacs/master/ > ls -l 
> /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/lisp/loaddefs.el*
> -rw-r--r--  1 gerd  admin   377687 Sep 17 16:36 
> /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/lisp/loaddefs.el.gz
> -rw-r--r--  1 gerd  admin  1467107 Sep 17 16:38 
> /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resource

Is your Emacs compiled with zlib?

> Note the timestamps.  Is that good or bad?

Good.  The .gz ffile should have the time stamp of the corresponding
.el file.