bug#27748: 26.0.50; doc strings should be in DOC file

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com> writes:

>> These strings still aren't in the DOC file, but I'm not sure whether
>> that's a problem or not -- what are the practical effects of the doc
>> string of `delete-auto-save-files' not being in that file?
>
> It's mostly just an optimization thing, so not hugely important (at the
> time, Ken was working on a pure Lisp dumping strategy, so shrinking the
> preloaded code was important for that, but we've gone with the pdumper
> instead).  However, I seem to recall that applying something like this
> will make it possible to solve Bug#4845, because the docstring loading
> mechanism will no longer be reliant on finding "(defun foo" in the .elc
> file.  So that might be nifty.

Stefan M recently suggested getting rid of the DOC file entirely, so I
wonder whether he has any comments here.  (Added to the CCs.)

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