Re: [RFC] The best way to choose an "action" at point: context-menu-mode, transient, which-key or embark?

[Ihor Radchenko]

Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> writes:

> Then you can use something like the buffer-local variable with the
> same name 'context-menu-functions' (handled in 'context-menu-map').
> The main point is that these functions return a menu.
>
> But instead of a menu, an org function could return
> a more high-level data structure like
> ((name1 . action1 props) (name2 . action2 ...) ...)
>
> IOW, this means adding an abstraction layer on top of the existing
> user interfaces such as transient and context-menu.

Yeah. I am not 100% sure if adding an abstraction layer is a great idea.
Another idea I was considering is similar to what you propose: have some
kind of hook like `context-menu-functions', but accepting an extra
argument - menu type (context menu, transient, which-key, etc.). Then, it
should produce appropriate menu spec.

However, this will require Elisp to customize things. Also not ideal.

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