From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: The minibuffer vs. Dialog Boxes (Re: Making XEmacs be more up-to-date) Date: 21 Apr 2002 14:41:00 +0900 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87elh9obgz.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> References: <7263-Sat20Apr2002145929+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1019367750 2000 127.0.0.1 (21 Apr 2002 05:42:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 05:42:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , jas@extundo.com, link@pobox.com, bradym@balestra.org, xemacs-design@xemacs.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 16zA7K-0000W9-00 for ; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 07:42:30 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16zA7P-0004we-00 for ; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 07:42:35 +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 16zA79-0002DA-00; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 01:42:19 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp01.fields.gol.com ([203.216.5.131]) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16zA60-0002AJ-00; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 01:41:08 -0400 Original-Received: from tc-2-195.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp ([203.216.25.195] helo=tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp) by smtp01.fields.gol.com with esmtp (Magnetic Fields) id 16zA5x-00086l-00; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 14:41:06 +0900 Original-Received: by tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 859AF307E; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 14:41:00 +0900 (JST) Original-To: Hrvoje Niksic System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 34 X-Abuse-Complaints: abuse@gol.com 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:2909 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:2909 Hrvoje Niksic writes: > > The menu itself shows the keybinding, if any, that invokes the same > > command. Isn't that good enough? > > It's not good enough for what Terje was complaining about. Under > XEmacs, if you open the "Buffers" menu, you can choose the buffer you > want to go to. But there is no keybinding equivalent to "go to buffer > named foo.c", hence none is written. In this case, one must learn the > procedure by reading the manual. I think for the Buffer-menu case, it would be enough to add the usual `Switch to Buffer' command as a special entry. If, for instance the menu looked like this: +-------------------------------+ |Buffer 1 | |Buffer 2 | |... | |-------------------------------| |Select Named Buffer (C-x b) | |List All Buffers (C-x C-b)| +-------------------------------+ Then users would figure it out. Currently emacs has the `List All Buffers' command in the Buffers menu, but not `Select Named Buffer' (I don't know about xemacs). [Incidentally, there probably should be a separator line between the buffer names and the commands in that menu -- currently there's not.] -Miles -- Next to fried food, the South has suffered most from oratory. -- Walter Hines Page