From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Chong Yidong" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Options menu Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 09:58:01 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <1599.220.255.169.59.1111157881.squirrel@220.255.169.59> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1111158592 3982 80.91.229.2 (18 Mar 2005 15:09:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 15:09:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, "Kim F. Storm" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 18 16:09:51 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DCIy6-00075v-VX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 16:00:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DCJEc-00016c-8E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 10:17:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DCJDV-0000jR-1B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 10:16:49 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DCJDS-0000hq-09 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 10:16:47 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DCJDR-0000gz-Gq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 10:16:45 -0500 Original-Received: from [64.21.80.18] (helo=shark.dnsvelocity.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1DCIvT-0004qT-17; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 09:58:11 -0500 Original-Received: from stupidch by shark.dnsvelocity.com with local (Exim 4.44) id 1DCIvK-0003r3-0S; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 09:58:02 -0500 Original-Received: from 220.255.169.59 ([220.255.169.59]) (SquirrelMail authenticated user cyd@stupidchicken.com); by www.stupidchicken.com with HTTP; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 09:58:01 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: Original-To: "David Kastrup" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a X-Mailer: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - shark.dnsvelocity.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gnu.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [32675 33085] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - stupidchicken.com X-Source: /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/bin/php X-Source-Args: /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/bin/php /usr/local/cpanel/base/3rdparty/squirrelmail/src/compose.php X-Source-Dir: :/base/3rdparty/squirrelmail/src X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:34724 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:34724 > I don't think putting submenus at the top is a good idea, since the > usual menu semantics imply that some of those menus tend to open in > the process of trying to select options below them. Another annoying aspect is that the submenus will open up while navigating the menus with the left/right arrows, so you can't access the top-level menus consecutively. I don't know how often people do this in Emacs, though.