Re: Case problem with menus

[David Kastrup]

Stefan <address@hidden> writes:

>> If it should be disallowed to use menu entries that differ only in
>> case, then this needs to get documented somewhere.
>
> I don't think there were strong reasons to do the downcasing.
> More like "menus defined with `define-key' usually use lowercase names, so
> easy-menu should do the same" IIRC.
>
> I had added such a downcase to my local hacks a long time ago and had
> decided not to install it because it was too gratuitous a change.
> Don't know what convinced RMS to change it.
>
> As for your particular problem, if it is decided not to revert the change in
> easymenu.el, you can work around the problem by using "greek " (and of
> course, adding a nasty comment cursing the Emacs team for their brain
> damage ;-).

This won't make already released versions of AUCTeX magically work
with Emacs 21.4.

Anyway, I repeat:

If it should be disallowed to use menu entries that differ only in
case, then this needs to get documented somewhere.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum