From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Assignment of misc packages for emacs Date: 17 May 2002 01:41:30 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <5xy9ej3bkl.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> References: <200205050534.g455YfF01634@aztec.santafe.edu> <5xbsbumexh.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> <200205141941.g4EJfud15293@aztec.santafe.edu> <5xvg9qmgzt.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> <200205160722.g4G7M2n18169@aztec.santafe.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1021588944 583 127.0.0.1 (16 May 2002 22:42:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 22:42:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: miles@gnu.org, assign@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 178Tx2-00009I-00 for ; Fri, 17 May 2002 00:42:24 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 178U9F-0007ZQ-00 for ; Fri, 17 May 2002 00:55:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 178TxD-0005AF-00; Thu, 16 May 2002 18:42:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.filanet.dk ([195.215.206.179]) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 178TvT-0004xG-00; Thu, 16 May 2002 18:40:47 -0400 Original-Received: from kfs2.cua.dk.cua.dk (unknown [10.1.82.3]) by mail.filanet.dk (Postfix) with SMTP id 9EA2D7C016; Thu, 16 May 2002 22:40:45 +0000 (GMT) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <200205160722.g4G7M2n18169@aztec.santafe.edu> Original-Lines: 33 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2.50 Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:4037 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:4037 Richard Stallman writes: > So it's basically equivalent to > > (defun mini-menu (menu) > (message (mapconcat #'cadr menu " ")) > (call-interactively (or (nth 2 (assoc (read-char) menu)) > (error "Unknown key")))) > > ? > > I'm not sure this warrants a whole separate package... [does it do more?] > > If it does more than the built-in keyboard-based menu handling, I > think we should extend or improve the built-in keyboard-based menu > handling rather than providing two alternative similar features. > As I said in another mail, the HierarKey function could be simplified, e.g. hitting M-g produces this prompt (my frame is 132 character wide): Set face: default (M-g d), bold (M-g b), italic (M-g i), l = bold-italic (M-g l), undeline (M-g u), Other ... (M-g o) With mini-menu, this would be much simpler, e.g. Set face: d)efault b)old i)talic bo(l)d-italic u)ndeline o)ther ... I guess we could hack the HierarKey menus to look like that -- then mini-menu would definitely have no purpose at all! -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk