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29.0.50; Help descriptions from menu bar items don't appear in the echo area

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Message #35 received at 52994 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>
To: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, 52994 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Daniel Martín <mardani29 <at> yahoo.es>
Subject: Re: bug#52994: 29.0.50; Help descriptions from menu bar items don't
 appear in the echo area
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2022 11:48:04 +0000

On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 07:42:52PM +0800, Po Lu wrote:
> Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org> writes:
> 
> > It certainly used to be the case that, at least on macOS, opening a
> > menu would freeze Emacs completely, as the menu code would go into its
> > own event loop. Perhaps that's no longer the case.
> 
> Hmm?  Shouldn't that kind of thing only apply to regular menus (as on X
> with a tookit and GTK), and not the menu bar?

What's the "menu bar" if not the toolkit menus?
-- 
Alan Third

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