From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Disabled menu items disable HELP
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 19:18:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uvevp4vm1.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
There's a problem with our code that disables menu items if some
conditions for invoking the respective commands are not satisfied:
there's no way to get help for these menu items (e.g., with C-h c or
C-h k) as long as the menu item is disabled.
I'm not sure how best to solve this, but it looks to me like a serious
problem. A user who wants to know what a menu item does should be
able to do that even if the command itself cannot be invoked.
Perhaps we should introduce a special variable that, when non-nil,
allows the disabled menu items to send their events to the input
queue. HELP commands could then bind this variable.
next reply other threads:[~2006-02-08 17:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-08 17:18 Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2006-02-10 1:12 ` Disabled menu items disable HELP Richard M. Stallman
2006-02-10 7:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-02-11 16:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
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