RE: [External] : Re: Making new menu after Tools using keymap-set-after

[uzibalqa]

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On Wednesday, July 19th, 2023 at 8:42 AM, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> 
wrote:


> Caveat: I'm not really following this thread in detail.
> 
> OP: I think (among other things perhaps) you are
> looking for an example of using `keymap-set-after'. If so, I see two examples 
> where` keymap-set-after'
> is presented, in (elisp) `Modifying Menus':
> ___
> 
> Here is an example:
> 
> (keymap-set-after my-menu "<drink>"
> 
> '("Drink" . drink-command) 'eat)
> 
> makes a binding for the fake function key <DRINK> and puts it right
> 
> after the binding for <EAT>.

The declaration is making things much more complicated because we were just
using a vector [menu-bar mcp-topm].  Now it is characters with angled brackets
such as "<menu-bar mcp-topm>" rather than conforming with previous 
define-key-after way.

More torture.

 
> 
> Here is how to insert an item called ‘Work’ in the ‘Signals’ menu
> of Shell mode, after the item ‘break’:
> 
> (keymap-set-after shell-mode-map "<menu-bar> <signals> <work>"
> 
> '("Work" . work-command) 'break)
> ___
> 
> This node of the manual comes after nodes that
> specify defining menus in general.
> ___
> 
> BTW, Eli, isn't `define-key' here a typo - shouldn't it be` keymap-set':
> 
> When you insert a new item in an existing menu,
> you probably want to put it in a particular
> place among the menu’s existing items. If you use
> ‘define-key’ to add the item, it normally goes at
> ^^^^^^^^^^
> the front of the menu. To put it elsewhere in the
> menu, use ‘keymap-set-after’:
> 
> I expect that the contrast to be made there is
> between `keymap-set' and` keymap-set-after',
> not between `define-key' and` keymap-set-after'.