From: Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com>
To: 46990@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#46990: 28.0.50; popup menu not navigable via arrow keys on lucid build
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2021 13:23:26 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a6r9su29.fsf@yandex.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pn0alx4d.fsf@yandex.com>
>>>>> Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org> writes:
>>>>> Can you or someone who sees the problem please bisect this?
>>>>> I'm delaying the release of Emacs 27.2 in the hope that we
>>>>> could fix it, if indeed this was introduced between 27.1.90
>>>>> and 27.1.91.
>>>>
>>>> I may be guilty of crying wolf when there is none. If I
>>>> configure the 27.1.91 pretest for lucid and "make", the effect
>>>> does occur on launching emacs via src/emacs. However if I go
>>>> the next step and "make install", the effect does not occur
>>>> when I launch the installed emacs. I will double-check this by
>>>> installing from the git master branch and report back.
>>>>
>>>> I am sorry. I stupidly assumed launching emacs from an src
>>>> directory would give the same beast as launching from the
>>>> installed bin directory.
>>>
>>> No need to be sorry: your assumption was correct. Emacs should
>>> generally work the same when you run it uninstalled. It is
>>> strange that it doesn't in this case.
>>>
>> It seems that what Colin describes is an old (and indeed strange)
>> behavior. I just tried (on Debian GNU/Linux) various revisions
>> of the trunk (up to 5b464a9cea from three years ago), and with
>> --with-x-toolkit=lucid the menu cannot be navigated with arrow
>> keys with an uninstalled emacs, and can be navigated with an
>> installed one.
Colin> Investigating further, I find that if I launch a lucid
Colin> "emacs-28" via
Colin> src/temacs -Q
Colin> and evaluate (menu-bar-mode -1) then the popup menu, formed
Colin> from <f10>, does indeed allow navigation from the arrow keys
Colin> (as well as the mouse). Only launching "emacs-28" from the
Colin> following
Colin> 1. src/emacs -Q 2. src/bootstrap-emacs -Q
Colin> 3. src/emacs-28.0.50.1 -Q
Colin> fails to allow the popup menu-bar to be navigable from the
Colin> arrow keys.
If I miss out the batch option and make an emacs by
./temacs -l loadup --temacs=pdump
then ./emacs -Q will allow the popup menu to be navigable via the arrow
keys.
This is about as far as my knowledge will allow. I will leave it to
others to decide what it all means.
Best wishes,
Colin Baxter.
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Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-07 16:57 bug#46990: 28.0.50; popup menu not navigable via arrow keys on lucid build Colin Baxter
2021-03-08 8:26 ` martin rudalics
2021-03-08 10:05 ` Colin Baxter
2021-03-08 10:56 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2021-03-08 14:29 ` Colin Baxter
2021-03-08 20:36 ` Glenn Morris
2021-03-10 18:59 ` Colin Baxter
2021-03-10 19:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-10 18:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-10 19:39 ` Colin Baxter
2021-03-10 20:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-10 20:30 ` Colin Baxter
2021-03-10 20:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-10 23:34 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-03-11 5:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-11 12:56 ` Colin Baxter
2021-03-11 13:23 ` Colin Baxter [this message]
2021-03-11 14:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-11 14:25 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-03-11 14:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-20 8:27 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-20 9:51 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-06-20 9:53 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-20 10:05 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-06-20 10:08 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-20 10:17 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-06-20 10:40 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-20 13:10 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-06-20 15:39 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-22 8:29 ` Colin Baxter
2022-06-20 10:08 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-06-20 10:28 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-20 11:02 ` Colin Baxter
2022-06-20 11:07 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-20 12:14 ` Visuwesh
2022-06-20 12:29 ` Colin Baxter
2022-06-20 13:02 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-06-20 13:16 ` Visuwesh
2022-06-20 13:22 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-06-20 13:26 ` Visuwesh
2022-06-20 13:02 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-06-20 15:38 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-20 15:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-21 10:16 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-21 12:30 ` Manuel Giraud
2022-06-21 12:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-21 13:58 ` Manuel Giraud
2022-06-21 12:36 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-21 1:22 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-06-20 13:01 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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