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Re: Assignment of misc packages for emacs
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: Assignment of misc packages for emacs |
Date: |
Thu, 06 Jun 2002 09:37:02 -0400 |
> Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> > The patch seems like a good idea, but I notice that it does a considerable
> > amount of manipulation of the menu data in C. Couldn't that be moved
> > to Lisp also? The menu key bindings are Lisp data.
>
> It could be, but it seemed nice to have the format sent to lisp be
> something simple and well defined -- raw keymaps are pretty complicated,
> and the details tend to change over time. I think the less places that
> have to know about all the implementation details of keymaps, the
> better.
>
> The code in keyboard.c already has to deal with it, so it's natural to
> keep the complexity there; also there's a convenient function
> `parse_menu_item' in the C code which takes care of some of the
> complexity.
Of course, ideally, the necessary "parsing" functions would be
exported to elisp.
Stefan
- Re: Assignment of misc packages for emacs, (continued)
- Re: Assignment of misc packages for emacs, Richard Stallman, 2002/06/06
- Re: Assignment of misc packages for emacs, Miles Bader, 2002/06/06
- Re: Assignment of misc packages for emacs, Richard Stallman, 2002/06/07
- Re: Assignment of misc packages for emacs, Miles Bader, 2002/06/08
- Re: Assignment of misc packages for emacs, Richard Stallman, 2002/06/09
- Re: Assignment of misc packages for emacs, Stefan Monnier, 2002/06/10
- Re: Assignment of misc packages for emacs, Richard Stallman, 2002/06/11