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24.0.92; easymenu: Document how to conditionalize display of separators.

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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: 24.0.92;
	easymenu: Document how to conditionalize display of separators.
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 11:19:37 -0800

Consider a use case such as this.  You have a mouse menu with several
groups of items, separated by separator lines (e.g. "--").  One or more
of these groups should only be shown under certain conditions
(e.g. (featurep 'foo)).  You thus want to give a :visible condition to
not only the menu items in such a group but also to the separator that
precedes (or follows) the group.
 
In easymenu, the only documented case for a separator is a string of
separator chars, e.g. "--", not a vector entry that contains keywords
such as :visible.
 
You can use ["--" 'ignore :visible (my-condition)] to do the job.  But
this possibility is likely not to be obvious to everyone.  So please
document it.  (BTW, is there some other way to accomplish this?)
 
See also http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=6344#21, which was
a similar bug (fixed).

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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: <10251 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: RE: bug#10251: 24.0.92;
	easymenu: Document how to conditionalize display of separators.
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2012 17:21:07 -0700

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 10251 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10251: 24.0.92;
 easymenu: Document how to conditionalize display of separators.
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2014 21:42:30 -0800

"Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> writes:

> You can use ["--" 'ignore :visible (my-condition)] to do the job.  But
> this possibility is likely not to be obvious to everyone.  So please
> document it.  (BTW, is there some other way to accomplish this?)

This seems to be covered in the "Menu Separators" node.

-- 
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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 10251 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: RE: bug#10251: 24.0.92; easymenu: Document how to conditionalize
 display of separators.
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 07:05:08 -0800 (PST)

> > You can use ["--" 'ignore :visible (my-condition)] to do the job.
> > But this possibility is likely not to be obvious to everyone.  So
> > please document it.  (BTW, is there some other way to accomplish this?)
> 
> This seems to be covered in the "Menu Separators" node.

No, it is not.  This is about easy-menu, which is a different beast.

It is not at all obvious that you can do this with easy-menu.

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