Subject: bug#44454: 26.3; Enhancement request: let :help in menus take a FORM arg, i.e., be eval'd

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2020 17:02:05 +0100

Drew Adams <[email-masked]> writes:

> Enhancement request:
>
> In extended menu items and the easy-menu stuff, the value of :help must
> be a literal string.  Consider perhaps letting it be a FORM, i.e., have
> it be evaluated, like :visible and :enable.
>
> It would be backward compatible.  If you use a sexp now the result is
> that you just don't get any help echo.

:visible and :enable have to allow forms as values.  What's the use case
for forms for :help elements?

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