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[PATCH] Prettier key bindings in NS menu entries

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Message #20 received at 45502 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
To: Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>
Cc: 45502 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Daniel Martín <mardani29 <at> yahoo.es>
Subject: Re: bug#45502: [PATCH] Prettier key bindings in NS menu entries
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2020 15:41:03 +0100

29 dec. 2020 kl. 14.53 skrev Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>:

> Looks good. As I understand it GNUstep doesn't need this fix, so
> please make it Cocoa only.

Will do, but what do you mean by not needing it -- does it do any harm, given that GNUstep menus do not appear to be working anyway? I have no GNUstep system to try it on so I don't know if it will even build.

> There was a work-around for some problem related to waiting_for_input
> in the old menu code that was lost when I copied the code from
> xmenu.c, so I've put it back in and pushed to master. It looks like it
> fixes the crash here.

Thank you, that did it.

> There's also the problem that we allow setting the left and right
> modifiers separately, so option or command may not match both keys.

That's true. Maybe a hybrid like M-↓ or C-⌫ is still fine though since the symbols are very recognisable -- I'll give it a go.

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