From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: mode-line menu for minor modes
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:29:18 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200802200629.m1K6TIoH027637@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <008201c87372$3d5b2ab0$0600a8c0@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:39:46 -0800")
"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> > The new feature to pop a menu when clicking on the mode-line
> > :lighter for
> > minor modes is great.
> >
> > But for minor modes that don't provide a menu, just an error
> > message is
> > displayed: "No menu for minor mode `BLAH'". This is not very helpful
> > for the user, it would be nicer to pop up a menu that has (at least) 2
> > entries: - one to turn off the minor mode
> > - one to show the help for that minor mode.
> >
> > Yes, these are available elsewhere, but it's better to
> > provide something
> > useful and consistent for mouse-1 instead of just complaining that a
> > menu is not available.
>
> Good idea.
Given that you wrote the rest of the minor mode menu popup code, do you
want to implement this too?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-20 6:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-19 8:09 mode-line menu for minor modes Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-20 3:39 ` Drew Adams
2008-02-20 6:29 ` Dan Nicolaescu [this message]
2008-02-21 0:11 ` Drew Adams
2008-02-21 9:17 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-21 9:27 ` Drew Adams
2008-02-21 9:32 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-25 7:48 ` Bastien Guerry
2008-02-25 15:22 ` Drew Adams
2008-02-25 15:37 ` Bastien Guerry
2008-02-25 16:32 ` Drew Adams
2008-02-25 15:47 ` Stefan Monnier
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