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bug#9923: 24.0.91; `where-is' does not find recentf menu items (cmds, no


From: Juri Linkov
Subject: bug#9923: 24.0.91; `where-is' does not find recentf menu items (cmds, not files)
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2021 22:32:17 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

>> I confirm that it prevents `where-is-internal` from calling 
>> `context-menu-map`,
>> and everything else works fine, but I'm not sure how this change fits
>> into the overall design of the menu bindings.  Maybe, `make-sparse-keymap`
>> means that `context-menu-entry` contains an empty menu initially.
>
> No, it's just that `where-is-internal` by-and-large doesn't run the
> `:filter`s when doing its search, so instead of seeing a binding to
> `ignore` it will see a binding to an empty keymap.
>
> As we've seen `where-is-internal` does end up running the `:filter`
> sometimes, but it's only done on those few bindings that match.
>
> When building a menu, the `ignore` or the empty keymap won't be used at
> all (their only use will be to pass them to the `:filter` function,
> which ignores that argument).  That's why the "binding" is currently
> called `ignore`: not because we want to use the `ignore` command but as
> a way to say "this is not used".

I pushed this fix to master, but not sure if it should be backported to 
emacs-28.





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