From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Format av menu keymaps Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 12:40:55 -0500 Message-ID: References: <43C191E2.6030206@student.lu.se> <87r77ikuia.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <43C2D976.5050302@student.lu.se> <43C2F87B.1030401@student.lu.se> <87k6d8k98r.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <43C36D10.1050003@student.lu.se> <43C3E81D.8010207@student.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1136917634 32660 80.91.229.2 (10 Jan 2006 18:27:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 18:27:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 10 19:27:08 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EwOCu-0004AG-NG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 19:26:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EwOEt-0005r7-Ps for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 13:28:59 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EwNWV-0004Qf-Ng for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 12:43:07 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EwNWT-0004Pq-8G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 12:43:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EwNWT-0004Pk-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 12:43:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [132.204.24.67] (helo=mercure.iro.umontreal.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EwNYx-0003Rx-9g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 12:45:39 -0500 Original-Received: from hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.50]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4329F2CF603; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 12:41:00 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from asado.iro.umontreal.ca (asado.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.24.84]) by hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 136354AC00A; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 12:40:56 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by asado.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id E96A1E6C20; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 12:40:55 -0500 (EST) Original-To: Lennart Borgman In-Reply-To: <43C3E81D.8010207@student.lu.se> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Tue, 10 Jan 2006 18:00:13 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-4.853, requis 5, autolearn=not spam, AWL 0.05, BAYES_00 -4.90) X-MailScanner-From: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca 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: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:48912 Archived-At: > Thanks very much, this works perfectly, using the value returned from > lookup-key for menu-bar-entry. Well... duh! That's the code I sent in the first place. > But I wonder why you prefer to use > (vector (intern (concat "appmenu-major-" (symbol-name key)))) > instead of > (read (concat "[appmenu-major-" (symbol-name key) "]")) For example because this fails if `key' is a symbol whose name is ")". `read' is a very high-level operation with complex semantics which are neither useful nor harmless here. Stefan