question about ediff menus

Michael Kifer kifer at cs.sunysb.edu
Sun Mar 9 12:10:08 EDT 2008


Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>
> Michael Kifer writes:
> 
>  > At that time the tools menu had an item "OO Browser", and ediff-hooks
>  > requests to install its menus after that item. But now "OO Browser" may not
>  > be installed (I do not know if it still exists), so I am not sure what
>  > something like
>  > 
>  > 	(add-submenu
>  > 	  '("Tools") ediff-menu "OO-Browser...")
>  > 
>  > does nowadays.
> 
> That one I can answer offhand.  If the "OO-Browser..."  item does not
> exist, then `add-submenu' will add ediff-menu to the end of the
> "Tools" menu as of the time it is loaded.  Currently there's no way to
> be sure of the order in which package auto-autoloads will be loaded,
> so we can't be sure of that.  However, the several ediff entries will
> be grouped properly.  In my current XEmacs, the Tools menu is
> 
> Packages
> Internet
> ----
> Grep
> Compile
> Debug
> Shell
> Tags
> ----
> Calendar
> Games
> ----
> Compare
> Merge
> Apply Patch
> Ediff Miscellanea
> ----
> Directory Search
> PCL CVS
> 
> which may not be optimal but is certainly reasonable.

OK, so I'll leave it as is. I just wanted to know what is the recommended
method.



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