Re: generate-file-autoloads-1 (autoload.el)

Jerry> 1) There is a while loop near the end with most of the body Jerry> commented out. The comment says, in part, "Emacs -- I Jerry> still haven't figured this one out." Given the code that Jerry> surrounds this while loop, it appears that the loop is Jerry> doing nothing but wasting time by going to the end of a Jerry> line, and then to the next line, repeatedly until reaching Jerry> output-end. How about commenting out the entire loop? Looks reasonable to me. I don't have an opinion about 2) trim-name vs. filename. 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. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN My nostalgia for Icon makes me forget about any of the bad things. I don't have much nostalgia for Perl, so its faults I remember. Scott Gilbert c.l.py