Re: New easymenu behavior

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

David Ponce <david.ponce@wanadoo.fr> writes:

>>> > What does your code do that did not already break in Emacs 21.3?
>>>
>>>recentf simply uses (easy-menu-add-item nil '("files") ...) to add
>>>the recentf menu into the "File" menu which is identified with the
>>>'files key symbol. This worked well in 21.3 because the code just
>>>interned "files" to get the key symbol.
>> That appears very shaky.
>
> I agree.
>
>>>Notice that XEmacs directly use menu item names to locate them.  For
>>>example you can use '("File") to locate the "File" menu in the menu
>>>bar. Maybe is it a better mechanism to use in external libraries?
>> Actually, that is all that I ever used with regard to easymenu.  It
>> is
>> probably a bad idea to create and manage menus by a mixture of direct
>> accesses and easymenu.
>
> recentf only uses easymenu not a mixture of direct access and
> easymenu.

If the menus were not created using easymenu, this amounts to a
mixture of direct access and easymenu.

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