From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 44454@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44454: 26.3; Enhancement request: let :help in menus take a FORM arg, i.e., be eval'd
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2020 17:02:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v9eejz7m.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <93a9e82b-3799-492f-9632-dfe61db9a7dd@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Wed, 4 Nov 2020 13:34:17 -0800 (PST)")
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> Enhancement request:
>
> In extended menu items and the easy-menu stuff, the value of :help must
> be a literal string. Consider perhaps letting it be a FORM, i.e., have
> it be evaluated, like :visible and :enable.
>
> It would be backward compatible. If you use a sexp now the result is
> that you just don't get any help echo.
:visible and :enable have to allow forms as values. What's the use case
for forms for :help elements?
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-04 21:34 bug#44454: 26.3; Enhancement request: let :help in menus take a FORM arg, i.e., be eval'd Drew Adams
2020-11-09 16:02 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2020-11-09 16:26 ` Drew Adams
2020-11-10 13:57 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-11-10 17:27 ` Drew Adams
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