I recently upgraded the ediff package and it looks like the "Tools" menu entries are now not getting added to the menubar. Is this the expected behavior? If I put (require 'ediff-hook) in my .emacs they come back. Should I recommend that all local users do this? Users at my site have found it confusing that the menubar entries just went away. What is the reason for this change?

Thank you Charles for noting this. I (and some of our users) had the same problem --- and I had no time to dig into it... > > I recently upgraded the ediff package and it looks like the "Tools" > > menu entries are now not getting added to the menubar. Is this the > > expected behavior? If I put (require 'ediff-hook) in my .emacs they > > come back. Should I recommend that all local users do this? > I took out the autoload declarations because they were causing > problems in (FSF) emacs. I'll try to see if they can be put back > safely. So, Michael, putting (require 'ediff-hook) to .emacs would be an acceptable workaround? Volker