Re: [External] : Re: Package cl is deprecated

[Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 12:03 PM Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
>
> > > You can also try `C-h v load-history'.
> > >
> > > Or type `load-history' in *scratch* (without the
> > > quotes), put your cursor after that text, and use
> > > `M-x pp-eval-last-sexp'.
> > >
> > > Each of those shows you your complete history of
> > > loading Elisp files.
> > >
> > > Search the *Help* buffer (for `C-h v') or search
> > > the *Pp Eval Output* buffer (for `pp-...') for
> > > loading of cl.el[c].  Just before that you'll see
> > > other loads - those can give you a hint of what
> > > caused cl.el[c] to be loaded.
> >
> > Thank you very much for letting me know so many wonderful tricks. I
> > tried with swiper to search the *Pp Eval Output* buffer, but nothing
> > matched, as shown in the attachment. Did I do something wrong?
>
> Try just Isearch.  Search for `(require . cl)' (note the dot).

Do you mean:

`M-x isearch-forward RET (require . cl) RET'?

I tried the above command under `.emacs.d/straight/repos' directory,
but it doesn't give any results.

> If you have a library `foo.el' in directory
> `/some/dir/somewhere/', where `foo.el' requires
> library cl then you'll find a sexp such as this:
>
>  ("/some/dir/somewhere/foo.el"
>   ...
>   (require . cl)
>   ...)
>
> You may well have loaded multiple libraries that
> require cl.  You may be interested in all of them,
> but the first one is likely the one that loaded
> cl.el[c].
>
> (Searching `C-h v load-history' in *Help* is
> harder, because it may split `(require 'cl)' across
> two lines.)

If so, the spanning line pattern should do the trick. Am I right?

Regards
-- 
Assoc. Prof. Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
Theory and Simulation of Materials
Hebei Vocational University of Technology and Engineering
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