So we know from here what the *Dump contexts signify and here Rojo found a very useful goody that involves them:
In[320]:= StyleManager`OpenStyleManager // OwnValues
Out[320]= {HoldPattern[StyleManager`OpenStyleManager] :>
System`Dump`AutoLoad[Hold[StyleManager`OpenStyleManager],
Hold[StyleManager`OpenStyleManager],
"NotebookTools`Stylesheets`"] /; System`Dump`TestLoad}
Note that this adds another auto-loading mechanism to the ones here. Although a more restricted one.
What is interesting about this though is the context it loads: NotebookTools`StylesheetsDump` which contains a whole slew of fun symbols. Similarly there is a NotebookTools`ControlsDump` context we can play with.
We can figure out which Dumps can be loaded via this mechanism:
Cases[
ToExpression[Names["*`*"], StandardForm,
OwnValues], {_ :>
Verbatim[Condition][System`Dump`AutoLoad[__, s_], ___]} :> s
] // DeleteDuplicates // Sort
(* The output is 1016 contexts long *)
But that's an overwhelming amount of stuff to try to trawl through to pull out gems like Rojo's.
All of this is build up to wondering if anyone else has a good way to find gems in these Dump contexts. I'm sure there's useful functionality buried in there, but I just don't know how to find it (i.e. every day using Mathematica).
