From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reuben Thomas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#9016: 23.3.50; Remove over-detailed documentation from ediff manual Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2011 12:33:30 +0100 Message-ID: <87hb6y5nqt.fsf@sc3d.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1310038468 6459 80.91.229.12 (7 Jul 2011 11:34:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 11:34:28 +0000 (UTC) To: 9016@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 07 13:34:23 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qemqc-0003Hz-VI for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:34:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44991 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qemqc-0005Or-0r for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Thu, 07 Jul 2011 04:33:32 -0700 (PDT) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2011 07:34:02 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:48155 Archived-At: The ediff manual says: ---cut here--- If you want Ediff to be loaded from the very beginning of your Emacs session, you should put this line in your `~/.emacs' file: (require 'ediff) Otherwise, Ediff will be loaded automatically when you use one of the above functions, either directly or through the menus. ---cut here--- This looks like it dates from a time before ediff was part of Emacs and has since been edited to acknowledge autoload, but really, autoloading makes this entire section redundant. I suggest therefore that this section be removed. 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