address@hidden: RE: add Help item to Text Properties menu -> Emacs manual node EditingFormat Information]

[Richard Stallman]

What do people think about this proposed patch?
Drew thinks that the Text Properties menu is hard to understand,
and that an item to bring up the relevant section of the Emacs Manual
would be useful.


From: "Drew Adams" <address@hidden>
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Subject: RE: add Help item to Text Properties menu -> Emacs manual node 
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Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 11:12:52 -0800
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Thanks for working on this.

Here's a patch for #1. I just added a `Help' item; I didn't try any of the
possible enhancements mentioned, which are beyond my ken and might need to
be done with C, not Lisp.

Thx - Drew

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*** facemenu-CVS-2007-12-27-.el Thu Dec 27 10:42:00 2007
--- facemenu-patched-2007-12-27.el      Thu Dec 27 11:06:46 2007
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*** 254,259 ****
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  (setq facemenu-menu (make-sparse-keymap "Text Properties"))
  ;;;###autoload
  (let ((map facemenu-menu))
+   (define-key map [help] (cons (purecopy "Help")
+                                (lambda () (interactive) (info
"(emacs)Editing Format Info"))))
+   (define-key map [s0] (list (purecopy "--")))
    (define-key map [dc] (cons (purecopy "Display Colors")
'list-colors-display))
    (define-key map [df] (cons (purecopy "Display Faces")
'list-faces-display))
    (define-key map [dp] (cons (purecopy "Describe Properties")

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