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bug#39848: 26.3; Provide better help for menu-bar, e.g., Options > Line
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Drew Adams |
Subject: |
bug#39848: 26.3; Provide better help for menu-bar, e.g., Options > Line Wrapping in This Buffer |
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Sun, 1 Mar 2020 09:34:47 -0800 (PST) |
> unarchive 13841
> forcemerge 13841 39848
> thanks
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > This is already fixed in Emacs 27.
>
> Indeed, so I'm merging this bug with the previous one.
Yes, thanks. I didn't realize this is essentially
a duplicate.
Is this taken care of _generally_, as requested
in #39848, or is it just taken care of for items
in this menu?
If fixed generally, then I guess it can be closed.
---
However, I do have a remark about what I see in
Emacs 27 (a dev snapshot from 2019-12-28):
<menu-bar> <options> <line-wrapping> <window-wrap> runs the command
menu-bar--wrap-long-lines-window-edge (found in global-map), which is
an interactive compiled Lisp function in 'menu-bar.el'.
It is bound to <menu-bar> <options> <line-wrapping> <window-wrap>.
(menu-bar--wrap-long-lines-window-edge)
Wrap long lines at window edge.
Command `menu-bar--wrap-long-lines-window-edge'
is precisely the kind of command that a user
might use, either directly or in lisp code.
So I really don't see why it's considered
"internal" (double-hyphen name).
I also don't see why it's in menu-bar.el or
it has prefix `menu-bar-'. There's nothing
menu-specific about it.
Not only that, but unlike what menu `Options'
has generally been for, this item does not
just toggle a single user option value. It
toggles two options and turns off a minor
mode.
Perhaps there are other considerations, but
at least on the face of it this command (and
its sister commands here) doesn't seem to
belong in menu-bar.el, and it may not belong
in menu `Options' either.
- bug#39848: 26.3; Provide better help for menu-bar, e.g., Options > Line Wrapping in This Buffer,
Drew Adams <=