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Re: Small but confusing doc error in easy-menu-define


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Small but confusing doc error in easy-menu-define
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:26:44 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.94 (gnu/linux)

> The doc string for easy-menu-define says that

> "If SYMBOL is non-nil, store the menu keymap in the value of symbol,
> and define symbol as a function to pop up the menu, with doc as its
> doc string."

> I looks like it is enough that SYMBOL is just a symbol name (it need not be
> interned).

I'm not sure I understand: a symbol can be either interned or not.
I.e. an uninterned symbol *is a symbol*.  OTOH a symbol name is *not*
a symbol: it's a string.


        Stefan




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