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24.3.50; `menu-bar-select-buffer' - Remove it? Move it to msb.el?

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 15651 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, drew.adams <at> oracle.com
Subject: bug#15651: 24.3.50; `menu-bar-select-buffer' - Remove it? Move it to msb.el?
Date: Sun, 30 May 2021 13:02:01 +0300

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Cc: drew.adams <at> oracle.com,  15651 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 30 May 2021 11:37:20 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> So moving it might break something for some users, but I think it's
> >> highly unlikely.  So I've now moved it in Emacs 28.
> >
> > Should it be autoloaded now?  menu-bar.el is preloaded, whereas msb.el
> > isn't, so 3rd-party packages which expect the function to be available
> > could be in trouble now.
> 
> We could do that, but since the command is so trivial (and undocumented
> and uncommented) that I find it unlikely that anybody is using it.
> 
> But if that turns out to be the case, we should autoload it.

I think we should autoload it without waiting for complaints.
Autoloading one function has a negligible cost.

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