bug#1394: `kbd' is wasteful

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Severity: minor
>>
>> [ resent from
>>   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg03001.html ]
>>
>> `kbd' is preloaded, but using it causes loading of `edmacro.el'.
>> If `kbd' is going to be common, everything it needs should
>> be in subr.el.
>
> I've extracted the bits from edmacro.el into subr.el, just to see how
> much would have to be copied over.  I think it's about 140 lines,
> leaving edmacro.el with 580 lines.  (And the admacro functions would
> have to be rewritten from cl-macs code to pure Emacs Lisp, since subr.el
> probably can't require cl.el compile-time.)
>
> So I'm not sure it's worth it...

So I'm closing this bug report as WONTFIX.

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