Re: easymenu.el

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

[Stefan:]

>     BTW, I've just installed a patch to easymenu that makes it look
>     for menu-item *names* when looking up keymaps, so you should now
>     be able to say (easy-menu-add-item nil '("File") ["foo" bar]) to
>     add an entry "foo" in the "File" menu even though that menu's
>     key name is `files'.  As can be guessed by the different
>     spelling, this now works regardless of the actual definition of
>     easy-menu-intern, so I (re-)propose the additional patch below,
>
> That's clever.

Actually, I'd say it's natural.  So I can't help suspecting that the
original design was there for a purpose.

> I guess the problem is solved now, and we don't have to change other
> code.

Is there any serious performance degradation to be expected, Stefan?
I think there was a time when calling menus the first time was rather
expensive.

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