From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stefan Monnier" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Assignment of misc packages for emacs Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 09:37:02 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200206061337.g56Db2W03814@rum.cs.yale.edu> References: <200205050534.g455YfF01634@aztec.santafe.edu> <5xbsbumexh.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> <200205141941.g4EJfud15293@aztec.santafe.edu> <5xvg9qmgzt.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> <200205151927.g4FJRRW26103@rum.cs.yale.edu> <5x3cwr4q7m.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> <87g00rd74y.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> <87sn4otknt.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> <200205191441.g4JEfMg23080@rum.cs.yale.edu> <200205202134.g4KLYHj26031@aztec.santafe.edu> <200205222227.g4MMRIX29393@aztec.santafe.edu> <87g0030xah.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> <200206061204.g56C4qf24692@aztec.santafe.edu> <87r8jka8bm.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1023370803 17786 127.0.0.1 (6 Jun 2002 13:40:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 13:40:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu, storm@cua.dk, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17FxUg-0004cl-00 for ; Thu, 06 Jun 2002 15:40:02 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17Fxpb-0004r4-00 for ; Thu, 06 Jun 2002 16:01:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17FxTo-0000D7-00; Thu, 06 Jun 2002 09:39:08 -0400 Original-Received: from rum.cs.yale.edu ([128.36.229.169]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17FxRm-0008WP-00; Thu, 06 Jun 2002 09:37:02 -0400 Original-Received: (from monnier@localhost) by rum.cs.yale.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g56Db2W03814; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 09:37:02 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 Original-To: Miles Bader Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:4611 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:4611 > Richard Stallman writes: > > The patch seems like a good idea, but I notice that it does a considerable > > amount of manipulation of the menu data in C. Couldn't that be moved > > to Lisp also? The menu key bindings are Lisp data. > > It could be, but it seemed nice to have the format sent to lisp be > something simple and well defined -- raw keymaps are pretty complicated, > and the details tend to change over time. I think the less places that > have to know about all the implementation details of keymaps, the > better. > > The code in keyboard.c already has to deal with it, so it's natural to > keep the complexity there; also there's a convenient function > `parse_menu_item' in the C code which takes care of some of the > complexity. Of course, ideally, the necessary "parsing" functions would be exported to elisp. Stefan