Re: Format av menu keymaps

[Stefan Monnier]

> Thanks very much, this works perfectly, using the value returned from
> lookup-key for menu-bar-entry.

Well... duh!  That's the code I sent in the first place.

> But I wonder why you prefer to use
>     (vector (intern (concat "appmenu-major-" (symbol-name key))))
> instead of
>     (read (concat "[appmenu-major-" (symbol-name key) "]"))

For example because this fails if `key' is a symbol whose name is ")".
`read' is a very high-level operation with complex semantics which are
neither useful nor harmless here.


        Stefan