Re: Case problem with menus

[David Kastrup]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     Now it is obvious that the identifying symbols before the menu-items
>     are being downcased from their respective menu strings, and that we
>     get duplicate symbols this way.
>
>     Who is doing the downcasing?
>
> I think it is easy-menu-intern.
>
> The reason for downcasing there is that the convention is to
> capitalize menu item strings, but menu item symbols are normally
> lower-case.

Where is that convention documented?

> We could change it to reverse the case of letters that don't follow
> other letters.

That won't yield different symbols for the "greek" and "Greek" menus
in AUCTeX.  It will still mean that we have to document somewhere that
when using easymenu-add-menu, one must not have menu names that differ
only in case.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum