Re: unhelpful menu keybinding notes

[Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com>
>> Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 12:36:25 +0900
>>
>> In the GTK version of emacs, the keybinding notes for the "Edit > Cut"
>> and "Edit > Copy" menu entries say "<cut>" and "<copy>" respectively.
>>
>> Those names don't seem very useful to me, as most keyboards don't have
>> such keys; also they don't help teach the real Emacs bindings.
>> Shouldn't those just say "C-w" and "M-w" ?
>>     
>
> This happens to come up periodically; I remember at least 2
> discussions in the past.  <cut> and <copy> are Sun keyboard's keys,
> and IIRC the problem is we don't have any good way to specify, for a
> command that has several keybindings, which one gets mentioned in the
> menu.  I think we currently display the last one bound.
>
> Also, please note that, at least by default on GUI displays, these
> menu items don't invoke the same functions as C-w and M-w (because
> x-win.el turns on menu-bar-enable-clipboard).
>   
Would it help if they invoked the same functions? Could we not fix that?