Re: Help menu

[Juri Linkov]

> Sorry, this cannot be done by just dropping the "Describe" part.  The
> reason is that on some systems (notably, the non-toolkit X build),
> only the last submenu is displayed.  That is, if you click Help, then
> select Describe, the initial Help menu disappears, and only the
> Describe submenu stays on the screen.  So, if you remove the
> "Describe" part, what one sees is incomprehensible.

Actually on the non-toolkit X build the parent's menu name is
displayed in the header of the submenu:

So "Describe" is unnecessarily duplicated.

> Similar problem exists when one uses tmm (e.g., on a tty).

This is rather a failure of tmm.  It doesn't display the full path
to the current submenu.  It would be useful to implement this.
And shorter menu names are much better for tmm to occupy less space
in its completion buffer.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/