Re: looading locally modified files.el breaks M-x mail on windows

[Chris Mooooore]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > I would like to be able to copy files.el locally, modify it, and load
> > it from my .emacs, but if I do that, I also have to load w32-fns from
> > my .emacs.

> I don't think this qualifies as a bug: manually loading a preloaded
> file is something that we don't expect users to have to do.

OK, it's not something that I have to do at all, but it's something that 
I have done in the past when I was young and stupid, and it used to 
work, and now it doesn't.  It's not something that I have to do any 
more, but it is something that intuitively I should be able to do.  I 
would expect to be able to load the 'files' library and not have it 
break anything.

> I suggest to describe the reasons why you needed that.  Perhaps
> there's another bug elsewhere, or maybe there's a different way to
> achieve what you want without reloading files.el.

I don't even need to do it any more.  I think rms had sent me a patch 
for a bug I had submitted, it worked, so I was using the patched 
files.el instead of the system one.  Sounds reasonable, doesn't it?

I don't mind if this gets fixed or not, but I would say it's currently 
less than ideal and thought that one of you people might like to hear 
about it.

Chris.