bug#56260: 29.0.50; Provide a way to define shortdoc groups without loading shortdoc.el

[Basil L. Contovounesios]

Lars Ingebrigtsen [2022-06-28 14:42 +0200] wrote:

> daanturo <daanturo@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Currently to use `define-short-documentation-group`, we must first load
>> `shortdoc.el`, but loading it isn't exactly a cheap task: my startup is
>> slowed down by ~0.0186s.
>>
>> We can achieve this with an autoloaded progn:
>
> I've now done this in Emacs 29.  An alternative approach would be to
> move all the definitions of groups out of shortdoc.el into a different
> file so that loading shortdoc.el would be fast.

See also this thread that hypothesised about some alternative
approaches: https://lists.gnu.org/r/emacs-devel/2021-09/msg01719.html

Thanks,

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Basil