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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 23:14:21 +0100
> From: Chris Mooooore <address@hidden>
> 
> 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.

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.

In the meantime, you can copy the definition of
convert-standard-filename from w32-fns.el to your .emacs, after the
place where you load files.el.  Then Emacs will work correctly even
without loading w32-fns.