Re: loaddefs and provide

[Glenn Morris]

Stefan Monnier wrote:

> I hesitated, but in the end, given the fact that we now use files whose
> non-directory names may clash, I think that auto-generating feature
> names from files is too risky and not worth the trouble (and
> generated-autoload-feature is not a solution since it is not at the
> right place, and actually there's no right place for it).

OK, thanks for explaining.

Perhaps there could be an optional argument to provide a feature.
Otherwise cus-edit.el, custom.el, info-xref.el and possibly external
libraries need updating for cus-load and finder-inf no longer
providing features.