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23.2.91; How do I update "local" autoloads?

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Message #20 received at 7989 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 7989 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>
Subject: Re: bug#7989: 23.2.91; How do I update "local" autoloads?
Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 11:40:11 -0400

Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> AFAICT the global default value of generated-autoload-file is only used
> when you use those functions interactively, which was the case back when
> Emacs did not bootstrap and didn't have much of a lisp/Makefile.
> AFAICT nowadays these functions are rarely if ever used interactively to
> rebuild Emacs's own loaddefs.el, so the default value is basically
> never useful and should probably default to something like nil.

I've committed a change that does this, and makes the interactive
functions prompt for an autoload file.

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