Re: menu-bar/menu problems and label/help text purecopy guidelines

[Lennart Borgman]

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 11:57 PM, Geek4AllSeasons
<Geek4AllSeasons@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> The menu-bar started having episodes (standard menus fading out/disappearing
> when clicked; toolbar tooltips displayed on mouse-hover on menu-bar) about a
> week ago.
>
> Emacs 23.1.50.cvs090630/EmacsW32 1.58 patched installed 09/23/09 had worked
> fine previously. Upgrading to Emacs 23.1.50.cvs091103/EmacsW32 1.58 didn't
> help.


Could you please test with an unpatched Emacs? I suspect the problem
may be difficult to reproduce there because the menus are harder to
reach from the keyboard. Or are you using the mouse?

In any case please try to reproduce it with an unpatched Emacs and
send a bug report.


> A few menu text/purecopy bug reports and thread postings referencing the
> switch to gtk+ reduced the search space. Inserting purecopy wrappers for
> menu text corrects the problem menu by menu.
>
> Use of purecopy for menu text is inconsistent for core distribution and
> add-on/contributed libraries. In many, maybe, most cases GC menu text works.
> A comment in an Emacs-Dev thread indicated library pre-loading (loaddefs.el)
> building Emacs as determining the need/use of pure/GC storage.
>
> Are guidelines available? If so, corrections could be made accordingly and
> patches created/submitted.


According to the elisp manual purecopy does not do anything except
when building and dumping Emacs so it should not be the problem here,
see

  (info "(elisp) Pure Storage")


> Based on search results there seems to be an increasing number of
> potentially related issues/problems reported. Variability of symptoms makes
> searching for solutions/workarounds more difficult. Time and effort would be
> saved if general/less incident specific posting/descriptions were available.
>
> Please let me know if there is a better list.
>
> Thanks.
>
> david
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