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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
Cc: larsi@gnus.org, 52973@debbugs.gnu.org, juri@linkov.net
Subject: bug#52973: Adding a few context-menu-mode commands
Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2022 22:09:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83o84m2dmf.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r19i3tky.fsf@posteo.net> (message from Philip Kaludercic on Sat, 08 Jan 2022 19:39:41 +0000)

> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
> Cc: juri@linkov.net,  larsi@gnus.org,  52973@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2022 19:39:41 +0000
> 
> >> No, the Man functions can be used anywhere you want to read a man page.
> >> It checks if the user clicked on something like "emacs(1)", then inserts
> >> a entry into the context menu to open the man page at point.
> >
> > So it will suggest to show a man page when text like this one from the
> > ELisp manual is displayed:
> >
> >      To conserve memory, Emacs does not hold fixed-length 22-bit numbers
> >   that are codepoints of text characters within buffers and strings.
> >   Rather, Emacs uses a variable-length internal representation of
> >   characters, that stores each character as a sequence of 1 to 5 8-bit
> >   bytes, depending on the magnitude of its codepoint(1).
> >
> > When the user displays a man page, the probability that "foo(1)"
> > references a man page is very high.  
> 
> Yes, but in that case Man-mode should have already inserted a link that
> you can just click on, without the need for a context-menu.

So let me step back a notch and ask: how else can we cause the context
menus to be automatically populated in a given buffer, once
context-menu-mode is turned on?  It must be some buffer-local feature,
because different buffers should in principle show different context
menus.  That's why I thought about modes -- those are always
buffer-local, and mode initialization code runs in every buffer where
the mode is turned on, so we have a place to produce the context
menus.

If you want to have context menus populated regardless of the modes,
what other buffer-specific mechanism can we employ?  IOW, what would
be the trigger for populating the context menus?  It cannot be the
user, because that makes no sense to me: the user already told us
he/she wants those menus when he/she turned on the context-menu-mode.





  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-08 20:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-03  8:34 bug#52973: Adding a few context-menu-mode commands Philip Kaludercic
2022-01-03 12:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-03 13:52   ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-01-03 14:32     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-03 17:23       ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-01-03 17:36         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-03 21:17         ` Juri Linkov
2022-01-04 12:26           ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-04 17:46             ` Juri Linkov
2022-01-04 20:01               ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-04 20:08                 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-01-04 20:15                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-05 19:09                     ` Juri Linkov
2022-01-05 19:29                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-05 20:57                         ` Juri Linkov
2022-01-06  6:54                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-06  8:20                             ` Juri Linkov
2022-01-06  9:10                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-03 21:12 ` Juri Linkov
2022-01-04 19:39   ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-01-05 18:58     ` Juri Linkov
2022-01-05 20:14       ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-01-06  8:17         ` Juri Linkov
2022-01-06 18:59           ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-01-06 20:03             ` Juri Linkov
2022-01-06 20:32               ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-06 20:35                 ` Juri Linkov
2022-01-07  6:38                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-07  6:46                     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-07  8:20                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-07  8:29                     ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-01-07  8:37                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-08 18:30                         ` Juri Linkov
2022-01-08 18:44                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-08 19:01                             ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-01-08 19:10                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-08 19:39                                 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-01-08 20:09                                   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-01-12  6:16                           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-12 13:12                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-12 17:16                               ` Juri Linkov
2022-01-12 17:36                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-12 18:03                                   ` Juri Linkov
2022-01-12 19:27                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-12 19:41                                       ` Juri Linkov
2022-01-12 19:53                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-12 20:00                                           ` Juri Linkov
2022-01-12 20:42                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-13  8:39                                               ` Juri Linkov
2022-01-13 10:06                                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-13  6:03                                 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-13  8:35                                   ` Juri Linkov
2022-01-13  8:53                                     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-13  9:10                                       ` Juri Linkov
2022-01-13  9:23                                         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-13 10:11                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-13  8:54                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-06 20:19             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-06 20:32               ` Juri Linkov
2022-01-22 19:39             ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-01-23  9:08               ` Juri Linkov
2022-01-23 12:09                 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-01-23 12:13                   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-23 16:30                     ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-01-23 18:06                       ` Juri Linkov
2022-01-23 19:49                         ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-01-23 20:04                           ` Juri Linkov
2022-01-24  9:14                       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-25 12:06                         ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-01-25 12:24                           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-04 20:09   ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-01-05 19:03     ` Juri Linkov
2022-01-14  8:52 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-14 14:33   ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-01-15  8:07     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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