Re: commands invoked by the mouse -> commands invoked from the menu bar

[Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu>]

Jason Rumney wrote:

   Although the comment says "we might as well leave that", it is
   actually quite important that we leave it on Windows and possibly with
   some or all of the other toolkits listed, since we do not see any
   events that are processed by the menu bar, including the mouse event
   that started the sequence.

Then we may have no choice in as far as the behavior goes.  In as far
as the doc goes, the current description actually correctly describes
the intent, although for technical reasons, that intent can not always
be realized.  To be complete we should mention that, when Emacs is
built with a suitable GUI toolkit, Emacs uses a file dialog when the
user invokes the menu bar from the keyboard, _except_ under
`emacs -nw'.  It is not immediately clear to me that it is worth
adding an extra sentence stating this, since I am not completely sure
that this is more than a technical detail.  I have no strong opinion
on this.  We would probably need an xref to the description of `-nw'.
The current text does not say that Emacs _only_ uses a file dialog for
commands invoked with the mouse and in absolutely no other situations,
although maybe it might be viewed as implicitly inferring that.

Sincerely,

Luc.