Re: easymenu suffix problem?

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>]

>> What should happen, is that easymenu should detect that it's seeing
>> "the same name" again in the same menu and then generate a different
>> key.

> It's not obvious to me how to do that. easy-menu-convert-item-1, which
> would need to choose a new name in the event of a clash, only
> processes a single item, and does not know anything about the map
> which the items will be installed in.

Indeed, it may require a bit of reshuffling.

> Is the comment in that function about "merge multiple entries with the
> same name" referring to some other, desired, functionality? In other
> words, the choosing-a-unique-name thing would only be needed in the
> case of name clashes caused by the use of :suffix?

Hmm... now I can't quite remember eactly why I wanted to merge
those entries.  Maybe it was just that relying on string eq-tests was
a bit brittle.


        Stefan