bug#52973: Adding a few context-menu-mode commands

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
> Cc: larsi@gnus.org,  philipk@posteo.net,  52973@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2022 20:03:51 +0200
> 
> > But then you say that this item is mostly useless and shouldn't be in
> > the context menu by default?  That sounds like a contradiction of the
> > success story with which you started, where the existence of the menu
> > item is a win, isn't it?
> 
> It's useless for most users, so it's not suitable to be enabled by default.
> Only a minority of users might want to customize and add it.
> 
> > And then this conclusion:
> >
> >> But when a user can tolerate this mostly useless menu item,
> >> then the user could customize the context-menu-functions
> >> and add the item that is used occasionally.
> >
> > How would the user decide whether he can tolerate this mostly useless
> > menu item?  And why should this burden be on the user's shoulders?
> 
> This is suitable for users that consult man pages often,
> or users can add the "Open man page" item buffer-locally
> in some modes.

A menu item that is not used does no special harm.  So why not have
these items in the menus by default?

Requesting the users to activate those items makes little sense to me,
since these obscure customizations are hardly discoverable.