Re: strange code in ediff-hook.el

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Michael Kifer writes:

 > Sorry, the purify-flag code was not for the menus but for XEmacs.
 > I need to find out how things are done in XEmacs these days and see if this
 > code is still needed.

Unlikely.  XEmacs doesn't have pure space at all any more, and none of
ediff is dumped, anyway.  Feel free to try removing it, and if there
are any problems blame me.

 > >   > > Also is this autoload still needed? 
 > >   > > 
 > >   > > ;; This autoload is useless in Emacs because ediff-hook.el is dumped 
 > > with
 > >   > > ;; emacs, but it is needed in XEmacs
 > >   > > ;;;###autoload
 > >   > > (if (featurep 'xemacs)

 > I take it back. This was needed for XEmacs when this code was written.
 > I will find out if this is not necessary any more or if there is a better
 > way.

This is required in XEmacs; it is the normal way for a package to hook
into the menus.