From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: unhelpful menu keybinding notes
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 10:19:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44434FAC.30707@student.lu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uacakzmn1.fsf@gnu.org>
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com>
>> Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 12:36:25 +0900
>>
>> In the GTK version of emacs, the keybinding notes for the "Edit > Cut"
>> and "Edit > Copy" menu entries say "<cut>" and "<copy>" respectively.
>>
>> Those names don't seem very useful to me, as most keyboards don't have
>> such keys; also they don't help teach the real Emacs bindings.
>> Shouldn't those just say "C-w" and "M-w" ?
>>
>
> This happens to come up periodically; I remember at least 2
> discussions in the past. <cut> and <copy> are Sun keyboard's keys,
> and IIRC the problem is we don't have any good way to specify, for a
> command that has several keybindings, which one gets mentioned in the
> menu. I think we currently display the last one bound.
>
> Also, please note that, at least by default on GUI displays, these
> menu items don't invoke the same functions as C-w and M-w (because
> x-win.el turns on menu-bar-enable-clipboard).
>
Would it help if they invoked the same functions? Could we not fix that?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-17 8:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-17 3:36 unhelpful menu keybinding notes Miles Bader
2006-04-17 7:10 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-04-17 7:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-04-17 8:19 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2006-04-17 8:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-04-17 8:46 ` David Kastrup
2006-04-17 15:50 ` Drew Adams
2006-04-17 16:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-04-17 16:57 ` Drew Adams
2006-04-18 1:42 ` Richard Stallman
2006-04-18 1:42 ` Richard Stallman
2006-04-17 19:11 ` Lennart Borgman
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