Re: New easymenu behavior

[David Kastrup]

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