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23.1.92; Clicking size-indicator-mode indicator gives wrong menu

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 5727 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#5727: 23.1.92; Clicking size-indicator-mode indicator gives wrong menu
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 23:30:52 +0200

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

> Click the size-indicator-mode indicator (e.g `Top') in the mode line. The menu
> shown is wrong - it is the same menu as is shown when you click the line or
> column number.
>
> It should instead have the menu item `Toggle Size Indicator Mode'.
>
> If the aim was to have some way to turn on line and column number display when
> these are both off, then you might add those menu items to the one above (to
> toggle size indicator mode). 
>
> But even then this is the wrong approach. You should not click Peter to modify
> Paul.

I think it's fine to have that menu on "Top", too, because you can't get
the modes back on again otherwise.  But perhaps `size-indication-mode'
should also be in `mode-line-column-line-number-mode-map'?  Any objections?

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