[PATCH] Re: Make #'find-function behave better with dumped functions, installed XEmacs

[Ben Wing]

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Aidan Kehoe <kehoea at parhasard.net> wrote:
>
>  Ar an t-aonú lá is triochad de mí Eanair, scríobh Stephen J. Turnbull:
>
>  > Aidan Kehoe writes:
>  >
>  >  > Add this to your ~/.xemacs/init.el and you’ll have the old behaviour once
>  >  > more:
>  >
>  > Add it to find-function and we have a deal.
>  >
>  > Why are you so keen on removing useful behavior?
>
> It’s useful to *you*. To me the code to work around it is one more thing in
> my init file that shouldn’t be there, that should be committed, since it
> would make others’ lives linearly a little better, and I would no longer
> have to cart it around to each new machine I use. See also, that console
> input modes default to regarding the high bit as meta, so pasting into
> terminal emulators is broken for non-7-bit encodings.

Maybe we should just change the default?


> Have a look at #'find-function, it’s not trivial to do this there. I mean, it
> could be done, but it’s not a two-line change. The below does do what you
> want, and in theory it should save a few K in the dumped image; in practice
> I see a 16K *increase* in the XEmacs binary size.

Do we really care about 16K here are there in the binary?  By modern
standards our binary is quite small :)