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bug#44454: 26.3; Enhancement request: let :help in menus take a FORM arg
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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bug#44454: 26.3; Enhancement request: let :help in menus take a FORM arg, i.e., be eval'd |
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Mon, 09 Nov 2020 17:02:05 +0100 |
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Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> Enhancement request:
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> In extended menu items and the easy-menu stuff, the value of :help must
> be a literal string. Consider perhaps letting it be a FORM, i.e., have
> it be evaluated, like :visible and :enable.
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> It would be backward compatible. If you use a sexp now the result is
> that you just don't get any help echo.
:visible and :enable have to allow forms as values. What's the use case
for forms for :help elements?
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