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Re: master e5392d3: Make easymenu downcase the menu symbol for greater b
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: master e5392d3: Make easymenu downcase the menu symbol for greater backwards compat |
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Wed, 03 Mar 2021 16:41:42 +0200 |
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: rgm@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2021 15:36:23 +0100
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> > 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?
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> 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.
How can we know if a symbol is used? There could be some 3rd party
package out there using it which we didn't hear about.