unconditionally loading help-fns.el

unconditionally loading help-fns.el

[Stefan Monnier]

An unintended consequence of the recent change to load-history is that
eval-after-load now uses locate-library, which happens to be autoloaded from
help-fns.el.

And since leim-list.el uses eval-after-load very early during startup, it
means that help-fns.el gets unconditionally loaded during startup (before we
even read .emacs).


        Stefan

Re: unconditionally loading help-fns.el

[Romain Francoise]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> And since leim-list.el uses eval-after-load very early during startup,
> it means that help-fns.el gets unconditionally loaded during startup
> (before we even read .emacs).

Hmm... perhaps we should move this function to subr.el?

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Re: unconditionally loading help-fns.el

[Stefan Monnier]

>> And since leim-list.el uses eval-after-load very early during startup,
>> it means that help-fns.el gets unconditionally loaded during startup
>> (before we even read .emacs).

> Hmm... perhaps we should move this function to subr.el?

I guess so.  But I'm also wondering whether it's right for leim-list.el to
use eval-after-load.


        Stefan

Re: unconditionally loading help-fns.el

[Richard M. Stallman]

    And since leim-list.el uses eval-after-load very early during startup,

How does it do that?  All I see are calls to register-input-method,
which does not seem to call eval-after-load.

    An unintended consequence of the recent change to load-history is that
    eval-after-load now uses locate-library, which happens to be autoloaded from
    help-fns.el.

We should change something there.  Perhaps move locate-library
into subr.el.

Re: unconditionally loading help-fns.el

[Romain Francoise]

"Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org> writes:

>     An unintended consequence of the recent change to load-history is
>     that eval-after-load now uses locate-library, which happens to be
>     autoloaded from help-fns.el.

> We should change something there.  Perhaps move locate-library into
> subr.el.

I did that.

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