Re: Split `simple.el'?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2018 14:41:11 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <address@hidden>
> 
> Could we maybe split `simple.el'?
> 
> Because there are a few parts of it that contain odd characters,
> when I visit it it takes almost 2 minutes (!) for it to finally
> get displayed.  I rarely need to access those parts of the file
> that are problematic - I typically just want to see the code for
> some relatively common function.
> 
> The file is also quite large.
> 
> How about splitting it up, in particular, moving the parts that
> use oddball chars to a different file?

As long as the VCS we use doesn't support well moving stuff from one
file to another, I submit that we should resist the temptation of
splitting files or moving stuff between files as much as we can.