Re: C-l while in menu?

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>]

>>>>> "Kai" == Kai Großjohann <Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE> writes:

    Kai> It appears to me that accelerate-menu is not really
    Kai> necessary.  One could make it so that F10 (or whatever)
    Kai> selects the menu bar, and then hitting an underlined key will
    Kai> select that menu.  So people can press F10 f to get the file
    Kai> menu.

This is exactly what accelerate-menu does, with the added feature that
the File menu (ie, the first menubar item) is preselected so that you
can type either f or RET to drop it down.  (This is true for submenus
as well.)

    Kai> With your suggestion, they have to press F11 M-f (if
    Kai> accelerate-menu is bound to F11).

No.  It works as you would expect.  F11 activates, single letters and
digits (also arrow keys and RET) navigate thereafter, no meta-chords
needed.

    Kai> Am I misunderstanding something?

Only that I didn't say anything further about the accelerate-menu
interface beyond it being one-shot; all the rest referred to the
"permanent" meta-chord interface.  That wasn't at all clear from the
way I wrote it.  A presentation flaw, rather than your misunderstanding.


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