bug#2031: 23.0.60; Edit menu missing in Gnus buffers.

[Reiner Steib]

On Sun, Jan 25 2009, Chong Yidong wrote:

> "Kim F. Storm" <storm@cua.dk> wrote:
>
>> This is an old bug - but still not fixed in Emacs 23.
>>
>> For some reason, M-x gnus consistently removes the Edit menu
>> in all buffers related to gnus.  

There are so many top-level menus that they might not even fit on a
typical 80 column frame depending on the fonts.

>> It might be ok in the group overview, and possibly in the article
>> overview, but in the article buffers, I think it must be shown.

The only  commands from Edit that might be useful are:

- Copy
- Select All
- Goto / *

Others?

Maybe it would be better to remove the Tools menu instead?

> Punting to ding---any objection to removing the calls to
> gnus-turn-off-edit-menu in at least the article buffers?

We have this since 1997 and I don't recall many complaints.  So at
least we would make it customizable (similar to
message-tool-bar-zap-list).

(defcustom gnus-menu-bar-zap-list
  '((t tools) ;; turn of tools many in all special Gnus buffers
    (category edit)
    (article nil) ;; keep edit in Article buffer
    (group edit)
    (server edit)
    (browse edit)
    (summary edit))
[...]

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