RE: Split `simple.el'?

[Drew Adams]

> > Splitting a file to circumvent such a bug sounds like a bad idea (at
> > least until we understand enough of the problem to decide that it's too
> > hard to fix or something).
> 
> Clearly we should fix his display bug.
> 
> That being said, the problem he's having is due to the value of
> password-word-equivalents,

Bingo!  At least it seems you're right.
I tried `C-h v password-word-equivalents', without visiting
simple.el, and I suffered an even worse delay (_many_ minutes).

How did you know?

> a defcustom that doesn't really belong in
> simple.el. A better home would be lisp/international/mule-conf.el, say.

Thank you!

As I said, I go to simple.el quite often, to see some code.
And I doubt that I will ever need to go there to see code
that involves non-ASCII chars.

For me, at least, splitting the file into SIMPLE simple and
FANCY "simple", would be great.  (Yes, I know that one person's
fancy is another person's simple.)