Re: strange code in ediff-hook.el

[Michael Kifer]

> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>   > > From: Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden>
>   > > Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:11:15 -0800
>   > > 
>   > > 
>   > > Is this code in ediff-hook.el useful:
>   > > 
>   > > (if purify-flag
>   > >     () ; if dumping, autoloads are set up in loaddefs.el
>   > >   ;; if the user decides to load this file, set up autoloads
>   > >   ;; compare files and buffers
>   > >   (autoload 'ediff "ediff" "Compare two files." t)
>   > >  [....]
>   > > 
>   > > It's hard to see why... What am I missing? 

This is from the times when ediff was not part of emacs. It is also useful
for debugging (if the menus will ever be changed, which last time happened
years ago).

>   > Why not ask the author?  (AFAIK, he doesn't read emacs-devel.)
> 
> Didn't know that. Done.
> 
>   > > Incidentally all ediff*.el files have some strange require/featurep/load
>   > > code.  Is that stuff really needed?

Are you talking about the compiler pacifiers? This reduces the number of
compile-time warnings. At least used to.

>   > 
>   > Likewise.
>