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27.2; Call `describe-specified-language-support' without menu-bar

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 52876 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#52876: 27.2; Call `describe-specified-language-support'
 without menu-bar
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2022 11:04:10 +0100

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

> `describe-specified-language-support' raises an error if it is called
> other than by way of the menu-bar.  Please remove this restriction -
> make it possible to invoke it any other way as well.
>
> See this comment in mule-cmds.el:
>
> ;; This function is intended to be called from the menu:
> ;;   [menu-bar mule describe-language-environment LANGUAGE]
> ;; and should not run it by `M-x describe-current-input-method-function'.

We have plenty of commands that are meant to be called from menus
only -- they don't make much sense otherwise.  (Ideally they wouldn't be
commands visible to the environment at all, but that's difficult to
achieve.)

Closing.

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