May your change "Factor out lists of operators specially treated by 'make-autoload'." be added to Emacs?

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Samuel Bronson writes:
 > Dear Stephen,
 > 
 > I recently became aware that the following change is not present in
 > GNU Emacs. I would like to see this rectified. Would it be possible
 > for you to assign copyright on it to the FSF, if you have not already
 > done so? (Pretty please, with a cherry on top?)

I assigned my XEmacs code to the FSF around 1998.  If the assignment
is not on file, I have my copy around somewhere.

Note that the code that this patch patches was written by Ben Wing in
2005 (Mercurial r2548).  From the patch and the style I would say it
was written by him from scratch.  So you're welcome to any snippets of
mine that work with Emacs, such as the defvars, but the patch surely
won't apply to Emacs, and you'd have to rewrite the parts that *use*
the variables I defined anyway, as Ben never assigned his code.  He's
often expressed willingness to do so under the right conditions; I
don't know if this would qualify, but I suspect it would.  However, I
don't know where Ben is at the moment, so tracking him down might take
more effort than it's worth for the two or three uses of those
variables.

Regards,
Steve