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Re: New easymenu behavior
From: |
David Kastrup |
Subject: |
Re: New easymenu behavior |
Date: |
Wed, 03 Nov 2004 15:27:52 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
David Ponce <address@hidden> writes:
>>> > What does your code do that did not already break in Emacs 21.3?
>>>
>>>recentf simply uses (easy-menu-add-item nil '("files") ...) to add
>>>the recentf menu into the "File" menu which is identified with the
>>>'files key symbol. This worked well in 21.3 because the code just
>>>interned "files" to get the key symbol.
>> That appears very shaky.
>
> I agree.
>
>>>Notice that XEmacs directly use menu item names to locate them. For
>>>example you can use '("File") to locate the "File" menu in the menu
>>>bar. Maybe is it a better mechanism to use in external libraries?
>> Actually, that is all that I ever used with regard to easymenu. It
>> is
>> probably a bad idea to create and manage menus by a mixture of direct
>> accesses and easymenu.
>
> recentf only uses easymenu not a mixture of direct access and
> easymenu.
If the menus were not created using easymenu, this amounts to a
mixture of direct access and easymenu.
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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum