Re: Shall menu_bar_items and tool_bar_items look at text property keymaps?

[Stefan Monnier]

> I was looking at the above functions and wondered whether it really
> makes sense for those functions to look for menu-bar and tool-bar
> bindings in the keymap and local-map properties of PT in the current
> buffer?
> 
> I guess it makes sense in some specific cases that the menu bar or
> tool bar changes dynamically depending on what kind of text is below
> the cursor, but I was wondering whether it will actually work - as it
> requires that the menu-bar and tool-bar are updated (or at least
> checked for updates) every time the cursor moves...

They are updated when they are activated (f.ex. when you click on
the menubar to brinf down a menu), so it should work fine.


        Stefan