Re: generate-file-autoloads-1 (autoload.el)
"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen(a)xemacs.org> wrote:
Jerry> While this works, it means that we are examining
the
Jerry> file comment by comment and sexp by sexp to try to find an
Jerry> autoload cookie, instead of just searching directly for the
Jerry> next one. Why?
I would imagine it's so that random non-toplevel code won't get pulled
into auto-autoloads files by accident.
Well, clearly the current code works, so I won't mess with it. However,
I will note that the only case where directly searching would pull in
something not pulled in by the current code is this: there is a
";;; ###autoload" marker just before a non-toplevel defun/defmacro/...
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Jerry James
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