bug#5661: 23.1.92; `find-library-name' should find a loaded library

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
>
>>> > The doc string says nothing about searching only the `load-path'. It's
>>> > reasonable to think that this should be able to find the library either
>>> by
>>> > checking loaded libraries or by searching the `load-path'.
>>> 
>>> That would be nice.  But does Emacs have a record of all files it has
>>> done `load-file' on somewhere?
>>
>> Sorry, I'm reading these really quickly.  But does `load-history'
>> apply here?
>
> Indeed it seems like that should do the trick.  Does anybody object to
> me extending `find-library-name' to check with `load-history' after it's
> gone through the paths it's currently searching?

Nobody seemed to object, so I've now implemented it.  It was more
twiddly than I assumed.

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