Re: strange code in ediff-hook.el

[Dan Nicolaescu]

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? 
  > 
  > 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?
  > 
  > Likewise.