Re: update-subdirs and lisp/term

[Stefan Monnier]

>> >> > A remnant from past, perhaps, when lisp/term held only
>> >> > terminal-specific files?
>> >> Doesn't it still do?
>> > No.
>> Which file there is not terminal-specific (other than
>> lisp/term/common-win.el)?
> tty-colors.el.

Good point.  It probably deserves to be moved elsewhere.

> And I think the *-win.el files don't belong there, either, as they are
> not terminal-specific, strictly speaking.

Well, that depends on your definition of "terminal" and Emacs uses
different such definitions at different places.  In the sense of
"terminal" used in `frame-terminal' (for instance), then they do
belong there, but in the sense of $TERM they don't.  So I don't think
that's a strong argument to move them out of there.

OTOH I do think it would be worthwhile to byte-compile them (after all,
they hold a sizable amount of code nowadays), and currently files in
lisp/term aren't byte-compiled.  Maybe we should byte-compile the
lisp/term files (IIRC elc files get loaded more efficiently because they
do not go through load-with-code-conversion, so even if they don't
contain much code, it's worthwhile).


        Stefan