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31.0.50; tty menus not displaying separators

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From: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 74740 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#74740: 31.0.50; tty menus not displaying separators
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2024 05:29:43 +0100

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Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com>
>> Cc: 74740 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2024 19:46:35 +0100
>> 
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>> 
>> >> From: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com>
>> >> Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2024 18:34:33 +0100
>> >> 
>> >> To see this, emacs -nw -q and open a menu from the menubar. Simple
>> >> separators there are displayed as "--".
>> >
>> > What did you expect instead?  I think this always worked like that on
>> > TTY frames.
>> >
>> >> More generally, all separator types are displayed as they appear in the
>> >> menu item definition, '--double-line' as "--double-line" and so on.
>> 
>> I expected a horizontal line for "--".
>> 
>> > What do you mean by that? where do we have such separators, and how do
>> > you display the menus which show them?  I don't think I see them in
>> > the default menu bar.
>> 
>> Concerning the separator types, Elisp Info says
>> 
>>   23.18.1.3 Menu Separators
>>   .........................
>> 
>>   A menu separator is a kind of menu item that doesn't display any
>>   text--instead, it divides the menu into subparts with a horizontal line.
>>   A separator looks like this in the menu keymap:
>> 
>>        (menu-item SEPARATOR-TYPE)
>> 
>>   where SEPARATOR-TYPE is a string starting with two or more dashes.
>> 
>> followed by a list of separator types, among them the --double-line I
>> mentioned.
>> 
>> One can get these from 3rd-party packages. Minion is an example, where
>> --double-line appears in a popup menu on the mode line.
>
> This was never supported in TTY menus (I think I was completely
> unaware of this feature when I wrote the code).  Patches to support it
> will be most welcome.

The following patch displays "--" for all separator types. I'd say
that's good enough, WDYT?

[0001-Support-menu-separator-types-in-tty-menus-bug-74740.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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