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Re: New easymenu behavior
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David Kastrup |
Subject: |
Re: New easymenu behavior |
Date: |
Wed, 03 Nov 2004 14:56:34 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
David Ponce <address@hidden> writes:
> > What does your code do that did not already break in Emacs 21.3?
>
> recentf simply uses (easy-menu-add-item nil '("files") ...) to add
> the recentf menu into the "File" menu which is identified with the
> 'files key symbol. This worked well in 21.3 because the code just
> interned "files" to get the key symbol.
That appears very shaky.
> Notice that XEmacs directly use menu item names to locate them. For
> example you can use '("File") to locate the "File" menu in the menu
> bar. Maybe is it a better mechanism to use in external libraries?
Actually, that is all that I ever used with regard to easymenu. It is
probably a bad idea to create and manage menus by a mixture of direct
accesses and easymenu.
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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum