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From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
To: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
Cc: "52293@debbugs.gnu.org" <52293@debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#52293: [External] : bug#52293: 29.0.50; [PATCH v3] Prevent further cases of duplicated separators in context menus
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2021 10:57:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86ee6egs8b.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <723c8965-31be-b636-beee-478fb77423ec@gmail.com> (Jim Porter's message of "Tue, 14 Dec 2021 16:17:39 -0800")

>> Thanks.  The current question was raised by Drew who worried that
>> sometimes authors might want to leave two adjacent separators
>> for an empty submenu.  But you answered this question that it can be
>> addressed by using a special form of a separator with a menu-item.
>> So I see no more problems here.
>
> For simplicity, I'll focus on *just* the issue described in the original
> post to this bug (i.e. improving how we detect consecutive separators so we
> can de-duplicate them more reliably). Then I'll send a message to
> emacs-devel to gauge interest in supporting de-duplication in other menus.
>
> If there's interest, it would probably make sense to have the
> de-duplication be opt-in so that we avoid any surprising behavior in other
> menus. However, if people don't think de-duplication of separators would be
> useful in other menus, then we can just keep the logic we have now (along
> with the bug fix mentioned above).
>
> Does that sound reasonable?

I'm not sure if de-duplication is needed for other menus.  Currently
de-duplication is used only to simplify creation of context menus.
But there is no indication that someone needed this for other menus.
Otherwise, they would report duplicate separators in other menus as a bug.





  reply	other threads:[~2021-12-15  8:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-05  5:58 bug#52293: 29.0.50; [PATCH] Prevent further cases of duplicated separators in context menus Jim Porter
2021-12-05  9:39 ` Juri Linkov
2021-12-06  4:07   ` Jim Porter
2021-12-05 17:59 ` Juri Linkov
2021-12-06  4:50   ` Jim Porter
2021-12-06  9:23     ` Juri Linkov
2021-12-07  3:54       ` bug#52293: 29.0.50; [PATCH v2] " Jim Porter
2021-12-07  8:19         ` Juri Linkov
2021-12-08  4:37           ` bug#52293: 29.0.50; [PATCH v3] " Jim Porter
2021-12-08 12:59             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-08 17:43               ` Jim Porter
2021-12-08 19:07               ` Juri Linkov
2021-12-08 19:47                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-09  9:06                   ` Juri Linkov
2021-12-09  9:39                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-12  4:02                       ` Jim Porter
2021-12-12  7:02                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-12 20:27                           ` Jim Porter
2021-12-12 20:43                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-12 21:59                               ` Jim Porter
2021-12-13 12:23                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-13 18:13                                   ` Jim Porter
2021-12-12 21:00                             ` bug#52293: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-12-12 22:12                               ` Jim Porter
2021-12-12 23:14                                 ` Jim Porter
2021-12-13  1:16                                 ` Drew Adams
2021-12-13  1:46                                   ` Jim Porter
2021-12-13  2:41                                     ` Drew Adams
2021-12-13  8:47                                     ` Juri Linkov
2021-12-13 17:25                                       ` Jim Porter
2021-12-13 18:58                                         ` Juri Linkov
2021-12-14  5:41                                           ` Jim Porter
2021-12-14  8:30                                             ` Juri Linkov
2021-12-14 13:04                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-14 16:49                                                 ` Drew Adams
2021-12-14 20:51                                                   ` Juri Linkov
2021-12-14 22:02                                                     ` Drew Adams
2021-12-15  8:59                                                       ` Juri Linkov
2021-12-15 18:10                                                         ` Drew Adams
2021-12-15 18:24                                                           ` Juri Linkov
2021-12-15 21:36                                                             ` Drew Adams
2021-12-16 17:20                                                               ` Juri Linkov
2021-12-16 17:51                                                                 ` Drew Adams
2021-12-16 17:56                                                                   ` Drew Adams
2021-12-17  8:20                                                                   ` Juri Linkov
2021-12-17 17:21                                                                     ` Drew Adams
2021-12-15  0:17                                               ` Jim Porter
2021-12-15  8:57                                                 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2022-01-01  7:13                                                   ` Jim Porter
2022-01-02 19:27                                                     ` Juri Linkov
2022-01-03  6:14                                                       ` bug#52293: 29.0.50; [PATCH v4] " Jim Porter
2022-01-04  8:19                                                         ` Juri Linkov
2022-01-04 21:14                                                           ` Jim Porter

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