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@@ -5223,15 +5223,15 @@ This is the simplest safe way to acquire and release a mutex."
(defvar definition-prefixes (make-hash-table :test 'equal)
"Hash table mapping prefixes to the files in which they're used.
This can be used to automatically fetch not-yet-loaded definitions.
-More specifically, if there is a value of the form (FILES...) for a string PREFIX
-it means that the FILES define variables or functions with names that start
-with PREFIX.
+More specifically, if there is a value of the form (FILES...) for
+a string PREFIX it means that the FILES define variables or functions
+with names that start with PREFIX.
Note that it does not imply that all definitions starting with PREFIX can
be found in those files. E.g. if prefix is \"gnus-article-\" there might
-still be definitions of the form \"gnus-article-toto-titi\" in other files, which would
-presumably appear in this table under another prefix such as \"gnus-\"
-or \"gnus-article-toto-\".")
+still be definitions of the form \"gnus-article-toto-titi\" in other files,
+which would presumably appear in this table under another prefix such as
+\"gnus-\" or \"gnus-article-toto-\".")
(defun register-definition-prefixes (file prefixes)
"Register that FILE uses PREFIXES."