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26.0.50; Menu display navigation commands

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: stephen.berman <at> gmx.net, stefan <at> marxist.se, 24774 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24774: 26.0.50; Menu display navigation commands
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2021 17:27:32 +0200

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Cc: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>, Stefan Kangas
>  <stefan <at> marxist.se>, 24774 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2021 16:09:58 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > I'm guessing that Stefan did this in a Git-versioned tree, where
> > visiting a file loads vc-git.el, which loads diff-mode.el, which loads
> > easymenu.
> 
> Right.  Even `C-h v' loads easymenu, so I think the conclusion here is
> that it's difficult to do many normal operations in Emacs without
> easymenu being loaded.  So preloading it seems like the right thing to
> do -- it'll make normal Emacs usage faster (and allow us to clean up
> more ancient code at the same time).

We never followed such logic, AFAIR.  Quite the contrary: we tried to
delay loading as log as we could.  So maybe, for example, loading
diff-mode just because a VC backend loads is not TRT.

More generally, I'm afraid that not keeping this stuff in check will
be a slippery slope, which will quickly lead to a much fatter Emacs
process.

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