Subject: Re: bug#52973: Adding a few context-menu-mode commands

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2022 22:42:36 +0200

> From: Juri Linkov <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2022 22:00:37 +0200
> 
> >> > A menu item that is not used does no special harm.  So why not have
> >> > these items in the menus by default?
> >> 
> >> Adding all these items by default will load all these packages by default,
> >> including man.el, hi-lock.el, etc.
> >
> > When will that load these packages?  When context-menu-mode is turned
> > on, when the menu is actually popped up, or something else?
> 
> When the menu is popped up the first time.

Then why is that a problem?

We could alternatively only have these items when the corresponding
package is loaded, but you rejected that possibility, AFAIU.