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: The discussion about easy-menu Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 17:37:36 -0500 Message-ID: <87k6rrnlqf.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> References: <002c01c4de15$7105edf0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1102631889 25594 80.91.229.6 (9 Dec 2004 22:38:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 22:38:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 09 23:37:58 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CcWv8-0000pq-00 for ; Thu, 09 Dec 2004 23:37:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CcX52-0003so-Iq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2004 17:48:12 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CcX4l-0003sU-3s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2004 17:47:55 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CcX4k-0003s9-75 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2004 17:47:54 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CcX4k-0003rz-2G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2004 17:47:54 -0500 Original-Received: from [209.226.175.184] (helo=tomts22-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CcWuj-0006VP-On for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2004 17:37:33 -0500 Original-Received: from alfajor ([67.71.27.115]) by tomts22-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.10 201-253-122-130-110-20040306) with ESMTP id <20041209223733.RSDY1919.tomts22-srv.bellnexxia.net@alfajor>; Thu, 9 Dec 2004 17:37:33 -0500 Original-Received: by alfajor (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 66936D7318; Thu, 9 Dec 2004 17:37:36 -0500 (EST) Original-To: "Lennart Borgman" In-Reply-To: <002c01c4de15$7105edf0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Thu, 9 Dec 2004 18:03:57 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:30957 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:30957 > I did not see a clear resulotion to the changes that made some old code > using easy-menu ended. Here is an example of the state at the moment with > current CVS Emacs. To be able to add a menu both when using current Emacs > and CVS Emacs I am now using something like the following: > (easy-menu-change > (if cvs-emacs > '("file") > '("files")) > "Quick Print (to Windows Printer)" > print-menu-spec "separator-window") )) > Should it be like this? I think it would be nice if "files" worked in CVS > Emacs too. This is actually orthogonal to the easy-menu discussion. The problem comes simply from the fact that Richard changed the key name from "files" to "file". He did do it as a result of the discussion, admittedly. AFAIK he only did it for "consistency". It seemed a bit gratuitous to me, although I do agree that consistency is a nice property. Stefan