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Disabled menu items disable HELP


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Disabled menu items disable HELP
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 19:18:46 +0200

There's a problem with our code that disables menu items if some
conditions for invoking the respective commands are not satisfied:
there's no way to get help for these menu items (e.g., with C-h c or
C-h k) as long as the menu item is disabled.

I'm not sure how best to solve this, but it looks to me like a serious
problem.  A user who wants to know what a menu item does should be
able to do that even if the command itself cannot be invoked.

Perhaps we should introduce a special variable that, when non-nil,
allows the disabled menu items to send their events to the input
queue.  HELP commands could then bind this variable.




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