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

[Kim F. Storm]

Chris Mooooore <address@hidden> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > 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.
> 
> ... 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.

Using an older, modified version of any pre-loaded (or even
non-pre-loaded) library seems very non-intuitive to me.  Such files
changes with each emacs release, so loading an older file may cause
all sorts of unexpected behaviour!

> 
> > 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?

No.

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