Re: unhelpful menu keybinding notes

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 10:19:56 +0200
>> From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
>> CC: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> 
>> > 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?
>
> ??? They invoke different functions for a reason, please see the
> source of the respective functions on menu-bar.el.  In other words,
> this is a deliberate feature.  Are you suggesting to turn it off?

I guess he'd rather use the same function which discriminates by some
other means between the two uses.

Alternatively, one could put explicit keyboard help strings into the
menus (or have some property for that purpose on the function?).  One
might assume that the people with actual "<cut>", "<paste>", "<copy>"
keys would still try using them without being prompted for them.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum