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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
Cc: 52286@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#52286: 28.0.90; [PATCH] Be consistent in naming of separators in context menu
Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2021 08:45:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8335n75z4a.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7a7d6b5c-ff5e-3d55-bef4-8ce8e163abdb@gmail.com> (message from Jim Porter on Sat, 4 Dec 2021 13:57:31 -0800)

> From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2021 13:57:31 -0800
> 
> This is spun off from bug#52237[1]. There's a minor issue with 
> `context-menu-mode' where some of the separators are named 
> `FOO-separator' and others are named `separator-FOO'. Since these 
> separators are partially useful for context menu functions to find the 
> right place to insert their items, this inconsistency could be pretty 
> confusing for authors of those functions (e.g. in third-party packages).

If you want to introduce a convention that others should follow, this
convention should be documented in the ELisp manual.

> Hopefully this is a small enough change to make it into Emacs 28, since 
> otherwise I think we'd just have to live with the names as they are 
> forever.

The first pretest of Emacs 28 is already out, so this problem is
already with us, isn't it?





  reply	other threads:[~2021-12-05  6:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-04 21:57 bug#52286: 28.0.90; [PATCH] Be consistent in naming of separators in context menu Jim Porter
2021-12-05  6:45 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-12-05  7:44   ` Jim Porter
2021-12-05 10:39     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-06  2:09       ` Jim Porter
2021-12-06 12:55         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-11 20:52           ` Jim Porter
2022-01-15 18:57             ` Juri Linkov
2022-01-15 19:13               ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-15 19:19                 ` Juri Linkov
2022-01-15 19:23                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-15 19:25                     ` Juri Linkov
2021-12-05  9:37   ` Juri Linkov
2021-12-05 17:52 ` Juri Linkov

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