Re: some subdirs.el won't be loaded

[Stefan Monnier]

> I found that some subdirs.el won't be loaded.  It seems that
> the reason is this change.

> 2004-08-20  Stefan Monnier  <address@hidden>

>       * startup.el (normal-top-level-add-subdirs-to-load-path):
>       Avoid unnecessarily checking system-type.
>       (normal-top-level): Set TERM to "dumb".  Simplify.
>                                                  ^^^^^^^^

> normal-top-level-add-to-load-path appends directories to
> load-path destructively, but because of above change,
> subdirs.el in those newly added directories are not loaded.

Aaaahhh indeed.
Would the patch below fix things?


        Stefan


--- startup.el  19 mai 2005 11:05:48 -0400      1.357
+++ startup.el  24 mai 2005 10:51:21 -0400      
@@ -368,11 +368,17 @@
     ;; of that dir into load-path,
     ;; Look for a leim-list.el file too.  Loading it will register
     ;; available input methods.
-    (dolist (dir load-path)
+    (let ((tail load-path) dir)
+      (while tail
+        (setq dir (car tail))
       (let ((default-directory dir))
        (load (expand-file-name "subdirs.el") t t t))
       (let ((default-directory dir))
-       (load (expand-file-name "leim-list.el") t t t)))
+          (load (expand-file-name "leim-list.el") t t t))
+        ;; We don't use a dolist loop and we put this "setq-cdr" command at
+        ;; the end, because the subdirs.el files may add elements to the end
+        ;; of load-path and we want to take it into account.
+        (setq tail (cdr tail))))
     (unless (eq system-type 'vax-vms)
       ;; If the PWD environment variable isn't accurate, delete it.
       (let ((pwd (getenv "PWD")))