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24.3; easy-menu-define docstring of menu :label and :help

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From: Kevin Ryde <user42_kevin <at> yahoo.com.au>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.3; easy-menu-define docstring of menu :label and :help
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 16:57:12 +1000

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I see easy-menu-define accepts :label for the menu name, ie. the button
which opens the menu or sub-menu.  Eg. a top-level item changing on
every redisplay,

    (easy-menu-define my-menu global-map "my menu docstring"
      '("MyTest"
        :label (format "MyTest-%d" (random 100))
        ["Foo" doctor t]))

Is this a documented feature?  It'd be good to describe it in the
docstring.  Perhaps something like below, with :help similarly too.

2014-09-09  Kevin Ryde  <user42_kevin <at> yahoo.com.au>

	* emacs-lisp/easymenu.el (easy-menu-define): Docstring :label and
	:help of the menu itself.

[easymenu.el.docstring.diff (text/x-diff, inline)]

--- easymenu.el.orig	2014-09-10 16:40:15.959124358 +1000
+++ easymenu.el	2014-09-10 16:42:55.067126503 +1000
@@ -71,6 +71,17 @@
     if the expression evaluates to a non-nil value.  `:enable' is
     an alias for `:active'.
 
+ :label FORM
+    FORM is an expression that is dynamically evaluated and whose
+    value serves as the menu's label (the default is the first
+    element of MENU).
+
+ :help HELP
+    HELP is a string, the help to display for the menu.
+    In a GUI this is a \"tooltip\" on the menu button.  (Though
+    in Lucid :help is not shown for the top-level menu bar, only
+    for sub-menus.)
+
 The rest of the elements in MENU are menu items.
 A menu item can be a vector of three elements:
 

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In GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2014-06-07 on babin, modified by Debian
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11600000
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