Since 49e41991b2 transient-define-prefix itself was autoloaded, but
that meant that when ever an autoload file was loaded, which contained
an autoload for a command defined using that macro, transient itself
had to be loaded.
That shouldn't be necessary. For commands using these macros, an
autoload that is identical to what would have been generated if it
had been defined using defun, works just fine.
* lisp/emacs-lisp/loaddefs-gen.el
(loaddefs-generate--make-autoload): Allow uses of
transient-define-prefix, transient-define-suffix,
transient-define-infix and transient-define-argument
to be autoloaded using just ";;;autoload".
* lisp/transient.el (transient-define-prefix): No longer autoload.
Autoload cookies on uses of `pcase-defmacro` used to copy
the definition wholesale instead of generating the expected autoload.
* lisp/emacs-lisp/loaddefs-gen.el (loaddefs-generate--make-autoload):
Look inside `eval-and-compile` as well.
* lisp/emacs-lisp/loaddefs-gen.el (loaddefs-generate--parse-file):
Don't fail in case of an error while generating the prefixes.
(loaddefs-generate--compute-prefixes): Don't burp when
`read-from-string` returns something else than a symbol.
In a previous commit, the local-variable read-symbol-shorthands is
already read into the temporary buffer used for the autoload parsing
aerobatics, so all we needed to do in 'l-g--compute-prefixes' is
use 'read' to give 'read-symbol-shorthands' a chance to kick in.
* lisp/emacs-lisp/loaddefs-gen.el
(loaddefs-generate--compute-prefixes):
This caused an issue where package-specific autoload cookies weren't
being correctly recognized, so they got dumped into the package's main
"<pkg>-autoloads.el" file, instead of "<pkg>-loaddefs.el" as they
should (bug#65023).
* lisp/emacs-lisp/loaddefs-gen.el (loaddefs-generate--parse-file):
Save match data when checking syntax.
There are packages in the wild, such as vlf-20191126.2250, which have
entries that are not terminated by three ';', but by two. Tolerate
such entries.
* lisp/emacs-lisp/loaddefs-gen.el (loaddefs-generate): Search for two
';' as a delimiter, not three. (Bug#63236)
* lisp/emacs-lisp/loaddefs-gen.el (loaddefs-generate): Remove
optimisation that would mistakenly discard old loaddefs in case a file
was not modified by EXTRA-DATA is non-nil. (Bug#62734)
loaddefs-generate produced an incomplete output file if 1) it
was called with a relative file name and 2) that same file was
specified via a generated-autoload-file cookie in a subset of
the input files. In that case, autoload entries were lost
because loaddefs-generate writes the same output file twice:
once for the relative name specified by the caller and once
for the absolute name that loaddefs-generate--parse-file
returns for the generated-autoload-file value.
This has been fixed. (Bug#60318)
* lisp/emacs-lisp/loaddefs-gen.el (loaddefs-generate): Expand file
names when grouping loaddef files.
* lisp/emacs-lisp/loaddefs-gen.el
(loaddefs-generate--file-load-name): Handle the case when FILE and
OUTFILE don't share any common ancestor directory. (Bug#59507)
* lisp/emacs-lisp/loaddefs-gen.el (loaddefs-generate--emacs-batch):
Extract the autoloads and have them loaded along with loaddefs.el.
* etc/NEWS: Mention the new feature. (Bug#57639)
* lisp/emacs-lisp/generate-lisp-file.el
(generate-lisp-file-trailer): Allow inhibiting nativecomp.
* lisp/emacs-lisp/loaddefs-gen.el (loaddefs-generate--rubric):
Inhibit native-comp, because it's not very useful for loaddefs files.
* lisp/emacs-lisp/loaddefs-gen.el (loaddefs-generate): Shorten the
informational GEN file relative to the stated directory
(bug#57265). This makes the message nicer for ELPA packages.
* lisp/emacs-lisp/loaddefs-gen.el (loaddefs-generate--print-form):
Escape control chars in bodies so that we don't end up with
trailing spaces if we're autoloading a defsubst containing
"\\`[ \t\n\r]*\\'".
* lisp/emacs-lisp/loaddefs-gen.el
(loaddefs-generate--shorten-autoload): New function.
(loaddefs-generate--make-autoload): Use it to drop optional nil
values from the `autoloads' forms. This makes the loaddefs.el
file about 12K shorter.
* lisp/emacs-lisp/loaddefs-gen.el (autoload-ignored-definitions):
Add another semantic function.
(loaddefs-generate--compute-prefixes): Allow newline after the "(def*"
form. (Bug#57000)
* lisp/emacs-lisp/loaddefs-gen.el
(loaddefs-generate--compute-prefixes): Allow tabs and spaces before
symbol name, so that "(defvar\tfoo-bar nil)" is properly picked up.
Before this change, such a definition would be wrongly picked up as
the symbol "nil".
* lisp/subr.el (package--builtin-versions): Adjust comments.
* lisp/emacs-lisp/loaddefs-gen.el (no-update-autoloads): Moved
here from autoload.el.
* lisp/emacs-lisp/loaddefs-gen.el: Removed now that it's no longer
used.
* lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el
(package-autoload-ensure-default-file): Don't warn about
soon-to-be obsolete functon.
* lisp/Makefile.in (all): Add "autoloads", which now otherwise
won't be done.
($(lisp)/loaddefs.el): Remove this target, since it's always done,
and would then trigger a re-compilation of loaddefs.elc.
* lisp/loadup.el: Load loaddefs.elc (if it exists).
* lisp/emacs-lisp/loaddefs-gen.el (loaddefs-generate): Don't
include no-byte-compile cookies in the Emacs build.
* src/Makefile.in ($(pdmp)): Depend on loaddefs.elc to ensure that
it's built by this point.
($(etc)/DOC): Don't scan loaddefs.el for doc strings, since they
are now picked up from the .elc file (bug#53024).
* lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-macs.el (cl--optimize)
(cl-struct-sequence-type, cl-struct-slot-offset): Autoload since
they are referred to by code in cl-loaddefs.el.
