GNU bug report logs - #56260
29.0.50; Provide a way to define shortdoc groups without loading shortdoc.el

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: daanturo <daanturo <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2022 15:07:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 29.0.50

Fixed in version 29.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: daanturo <daanturo <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 56260 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#56260: 29.0.50; Provide a way to define shortdoc groups without loading shortdoc.el
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2022 14:42:31 +0200

daanturo <daanturo <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Currently to use `define-short-documentation-group`, we must first load
> `shortdoc.el`, but loading it isn't exactly a cheap task: my startup is
> slowed down by ~0.0186s.
>
> We can achieve this with an autoloaded progn:
>
> ```elisp
>
> ;; Allow registering shortdoc groups without loading this file

I've now done this in Emacs 29.  An alternative approach would be to
move all the definitions of groups out of shortdoc.el into a different
file so that loading shortdoc.el would be fast.

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