GNU bug report logs - #52973
Adding a few context-menu-mode commands

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Message #158 received at 52973 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: larsi <at> gnus.org, 52973 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, philipk <at> posteo.net
Subject: Re: bug#52973: Adding a few context-menu-mode commands
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2022 22:42:36 +0200

> From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
> Cc: larsi <at> gnus.org,  philipk <at> posteo.net,  52973 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 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.

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