Re: Preload encoded-kb on MS-Windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Kenichi Handa <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 09:33:21 +0900
> 
> In article <address@hidden>, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >> But, as a developper, I see a merit in not preloading such
> >> files because then the debugging/testing of them gets a
> >> little bit easier (we don't have to dump Emacs).
> 
> > Well, we have gobs of files preloaded already, so one more won't hurt
> > too much, I think.  But I'll defer to Richard's decision.
> 
> It seems that you misunderstand my point above.  When *.el
> is not preloaded, we can test it by modifying and
> byte-compiling that file and just restart Emacs.  If *.el is
> preloaded, we need an additional step; building Emacs.

I did understand what you were saying.  My response to that is that we
already have that situation with many other files: e.g., when we need
to debug files.el, we need to rebuild Emacs.