find-file.el bug; checked in a fix.

[Dave Goel]

hi

Bug in the current cvs:

If a function f is autoloaded from a file a.el in a directory d, and
if there also exists an executable file called a in a directory d1,
then calling find-function on f shows the file a instead of
a.el. (And, it then fails to find the function f in the incorrectly
loaded file.)

The problem seems to appear when d1 precedes d in your extended load-path.

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I have checked in a fix -- 

The problem is that symbol-function definition for loaded functions
does not store the .el suffix.  locate-library then searches for all
suffixes ("el" "el.gz" "" ) in the load-path.  Given this order, it
does the right thing - prefer "el" over "" in a *given* directory.
However, this will fail if the "" suffix occurs in a different
directory which gets examined earlier. 

I believe that an appropriate solution is to simply make
`find-library-name' search for the (".el" ".el.gz") files first in the
load-path.  Only if it does not succeed look for the other suffixes.

The rationale is that it is much more likely that emacs would have
learned of that function from a ".el" (or a derivative thereof, like a
.elc) rather than a "" file.



I have committed this fix.


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This seems like a pretty non-destructive and local change. `find-library-name',
not to be confused by locate-library, is only used in find-file.el.

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Goel or deego from my older email address which I no longer use
actively. I don't want to frob my From: header every time I post here;
so I am going to remark about the change here, and leave my From:
intact; I should learn about gnus posting styles...)


- Deepak Goel