Dired 7.9 bug: Strange menu item

Hrvoje Niksic (hniksic@srce.hr)
22 May 1998 02:19:31 +0200 

It appears that this code in `dired-install-menubar' doesn't work as
expected:

    (add-menu-button '("Help") (list "---"))

Under X, it is ignored; under NT, a literal "---" is displayed.


Emacs  : XEmacs 21.0 "Saanen" [Lucid] (sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1) of Wed May 20 1998 on jagor.srce.hr
Package: Dired

current state:
==============
(setq
 dired-version "7.9"
 dired-backup-if-overwrite nil
 dired-chown-program "chown"
 dired-cleanup-alist '(("tex" ".toc" ".log" ".aux" ".dvi")
		       ("latex" ".toc" ".log" ".aux" ".idx" ".lof" ".lot" ".glo" ".dvi")
		       ("bibtex" ".blg" ".bbl")
		       ("texinfo" ".cp" ".cps" ".fn" ".fns" ".ky" ".kys" ".pg" ".pgs"
			".tp" ".tps" ".vr" ".vrs")
		       ("patch" ".rej" ".orig") ("backups" "~")
		       ("completion-ignored-extensions" ".o" ".elc" "~" ".bin" ".lbin"
			".fasl" ".dvi" ".toc" ".log" ".aux" ".a" ".ln" ".lof" ".blg"
			".bbl" ".glo" ".idx" ".lot" ".fmt" ".diff" ".oi" ".class")
		       )
 dired-compression-method 'gzip
 dired-compression-method-alist '((gzip ".gz" ("gzip") ("gzip" "-d") "-f")
				  (compress ".Z" ("compress" "-f") ("compress" "-d")
				   "-f")
				  (pack ".z" ("pack" "-f") ("unpack"))
				  (compact ".C" ("compact") ("uncompact")))
 dired-copy-preserve-time t
 dired-dwim-target nil
 dired-failed-marker-shell ?\!
 dired-filename-re-ext "\\..+\\'"
 dired-find-subdir nil
 dired-gnutar-program nil
 dired-keep-marker-compress t
 dired-keep-marker-copy ?C
 dired-keep-marker-hardlink ?H
 dired-keep-marker-kill ?K
 dired-keep-marker-rename t
 dired-keep-marker-symlink ?S
 dired-keep-marker-uucode ?U
 dired-kept-versions 2
 dired-listing-switches "-al"
 dired-local-variables-file ".dired"
 dired-ls-F-marks-symlinks nil
 dired-ls-program "ls"
 dired-mail-reader 'vm
 dired-mode-line-modified "-%s%s%s-"
 dired-no-confirm nil
 dired-omit-extensions '(".class" ".oi" ".diff" ".fmt" ".ln" ".a" ".fasl" ".lbin" ".bin"
			 ".elc" ".o" "~" ".orig" ".rej" ".vrs" ".vr" ".tps" ".tp" ".pgs"
			 ".pg" ".kys" ".ky" ".fns" ".fn" ".cps" ".cp" ".bbl" ".blg"
			 ".glo" ".lot" ".lof" ".idx" ".dvi" ".aux" ".log" ".toc")
 dired-omit-files nil
 dired-omit-regexps '("\\`#" "\\`\\.")
 dired-refresh-automatically t
 dired-show-ls-switches nil
 dired-trivial-filenames "\\`\\.\\.?\\'\\|\\`#"
 dired-unshar-program nil
 dired-use-file-transformers t
 dired-verify-modtimes t
 reporter-version "3.35"
 )
-- 
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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