Re: No "Edit" menu-item in "Gnus"

[Jan Djärv]

David Kastrup writes:
> address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:
>
> > Why does Gnus hide the Edit menu item?
> >
> > There are several items on that menu that are useful when reading mail
> > and news.
>
> Maybe we should have the Edit menu selectively grey out what does not
> work on read-only buffers?  This is partly done, but somewhat
> inconsistently.  For example, "Yank" is allowed.  The definition of
> x-clipboard-yank does not have an (interactive "*") spec.  I don't
> know whether that is the reason, or whether the interactive-spec does
> not get consulted automatically.

It is because the function clipboard-yank didn't have one.  Maybe they both 
should have one?  But those are not automatically applied to the menu, I've 
made a change in x-win.el so that paste is disabled for read-only buffers.

        Jan D.