Re: reftex.el autoloads

[Phillip Lord]

Glenn Morris <address@hidden> writes:

> Phillip Lord wrote:
>
>> 2) Just putting the autoloads into loaddefs.el.
>
> That's just plain wrong. Please don't do that.

It may be wrong, but it's not plain. I assumed that there was a reason
for not doing this. But I still do not understand what that reason is.
Can you please tell me what is wrong with it, because I cannot figure it
out?


> The only options that make any sense are:
>
> 1) do nothing (which is what I would do)
>
> 2) forbid generated-autoload-file to ever point to a versioned file.
> That means changing all these files:
>
> find lisp -name '*.el' -exec grep '^;.*generated-autoload-file:' {} + | \
>   sed -e '/loaddefs\|esh-groups/d' -e 's|/[^/]*: "|/|' -e 's/"//g' | sort -u
>
> lisp/dired.el
> lisp/emacs-lisp/eieio-core.el
> lisp/emacs-lisp/eieio.el
> lisp/htmlfontify.el
> lisp/ibuffer.el
> lisp/mail/rmail.el
> lisp/obsolete/tpu-edt.el
> lisp/ps-print.el
> lisp/textmodes/reftex.el
>
> to load foo-loadefs.el (which in many cases will be tiny files).

Yes, some of them are pretty small.

Phil