Re: master e5392d3: Make easymenu downcase the menu symbol for greater backwards compat

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> easymenu should also be extended with a form to allow explicitly
>> specifying the symbol to use: For instance, if you change the name of
>> the menu now, the symbol will also change.  So for backwards
>> compatibility, symbols should be specified when changing the name in
>> easymenu calls.
>
> That'd be fine with me, but then (a) we should make sure the symbols
> are in fact specified in all the uses of easymenu that replace
> existing menus; and (b) would that still leave easymenu so much more
> convenient to justify the switch?

I was thinking of this :symbol keyword not as something we would use in
general, but in special cases where the symbol is known (or suspected to
be used) by other packages.  The more general case difference thing
should be handled more generally.

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