From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Menus with more items than the TTY can display Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 17:44:49 +0300 Message-ID: <8338o7sw7y.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83a9igrqq1.fsf@gnu.org> <5257EA1C.3030000@yandex.ru> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1381502714 1974 80.91.229.3 (11 Oct 2013 14:45:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 14:45:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dmoncayo@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Antipov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 11 16:45:17 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VUdxt-0006xs-6N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Oct 2013 16:45:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54741 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VUdxs-0002Hp-T4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Oct 2013 10:45:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36921) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VUdxk-0002Fl-V9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Oct 2013 10:45:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VUdxf-0006Y1-MM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Oct 2013 10:45:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:45143) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VUdxf-0006XS-Ey for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Oct 2013 10:45:03 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MUI00L00E5YKM00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Oct 2013 17:45:02 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MUI00LD8EB1KV00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Fri, 11 Oct 2013 17:45:02 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <5257EA1C.3030000@yandex.ru> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:164096 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 16:07:56 +0400 > From: Dmitry Antipov > Cc: Emacs development discussions , > Dani Moncayo > > Plus, I think that the menu should not overwrite modeline Why not? The downside is clear: you lose one line. > Instead, menu should end before modeline and display some special > thing if there are more menu items to scroll, like on the second > image ("vvvvvv"). This is only useful if/when the menus scroll. Otherwise, it's a waste of precious real estate.