> How do I delete divider bars from a menu?
> Deleting normal items works, deleting the divider bar doesn't:
> (easy-menu-remove-item global-map '("menu-bar" "file") 'exit-emacs) ;works
> (easy-menu-remove-item global-map '("menu-bar" "file")
> 'separator-exit);doesn't work
> The latter just doesn't do anything.
The problem is a bug in easy-menu.
The patch below fixes it in your case.
Stefan
--- orig/lisp/emacs-lisp/easymenu.el
+++ mod/lisp/emacs-lisp/easymenu.el
@@ -549,7 +549,14 @@
"In menu MENU try to look for menu item with name NAME.
If a menu item is found, return (NAME . item), otherwise return nil.
If item is an old format item, a new format item is returned."
- (let ((item (lookup-key menu (vector (easy-menu-intern name))))
+ ;; The call to `lookup-key' also calls the C function `get_keyelt' which
+ ;; looks inside a menu-item to only return the actual command. This is
+ ;; not what we want here. We should either add an arg to lookup-key to be
+ ;; able to turn off this "feature", or else we could use map-keymap here.
+ ;; In the mean time, I just use `assq' which is an OK approximation since
+ ;; menus are rarely built from vectors or char-tables.
+ (let ((item (or (cdr (assq name menu))
+ (lookup-key menu (vector (easy-menu-intern name)))))
ret enable cache label)
(cond
((stringp (car-safe item))
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