From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: master e5392d3: Make easymenu downcase the menu symbol for greater backwards compat Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2021 21:20:23 +0200 Message-ID: <83o8g0jb7s.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20210301212446.5364.12431@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20210301212448.4653D20E1B@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <87sg5eyrof.fsf@gnus.org> <8335xd7j6q.fsf@gnu.org> <87eegwxq1k.fsf@gnus.org> <834khsl2op.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="9805"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: rgm@gnu.org, larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 03 20:27:16 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lHX9Q-0002Ox-9m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 03 Mar 2021 20:27:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34814 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lHX9P-0005kM-CP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 03 Mar 2021 14:27:15 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:42918) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lHX3B-0007ot-V4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Mar 2021 14:20:50 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:43004) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lHX3A-00015G-Gx; Wed, 03 Mar 2021 14:20:49 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:1194 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1lHX37-0002Ic-6L; Wed, 03 Mar 2021 14:20:47 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Kangas on Wed, 3 Mar 2021 12:46:39 -0600) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:265902 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Kangas > Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2021 12:46:39 -0600 > Cc: rgm@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > >> I was thinking of this :symbol keyword not as something we would use in > >> general, but in special cases where the symbol is known (or suspected to > >> be used) by other packages. The more general case difference thing > >> should be handled more generally. > > > > How can we know if a symbol is used? There could be some 3rd party > > package out there using it which we didn't hear about. > > We should be able to get a fairly good estimate by checking our own > sources, GNU ELPA, and code search on GitHub. > > If we want to take it to the next level one could download all of MELPA > and check there too. (If someone has a one-liner or a short script to > download all packages and keep them updated, I'm personally all ears.) It should be much easier to just always add :symbol, IMO.