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

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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 26.3; Enhancement request: let :help in menus take a FORM arg, i.e.,
 be eval'd
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2020 13:34:17 -0800 (PST)

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.

In GNU Emacs 26.3 (build 1, x86_64-w64-mingw32)
 of 2019-08-29
Repository revision: 96dd0196c28bc36779584e47fffcca433c9309cd
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 10.0.18362
Configured using:
 `configure --without-dbus --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32
 --without-compress-install 'CFLAGS=-O2 -static -g3''

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