Re: Tip: tty mode-line popup menus

[Petteri Hintsanen <petterih@iki.fi>]

Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com> writes:

> I don't like the tty behavior. It is fiddly with a track pad, which I
> normally use, leading to inadvertent menu selections.

There is a similar kind of behavior with normal (pull-down) tty menus as
well.  If you do:

 $ emacs -nw Q
 M-x xterm-mouse-mode RET
 {click on Tools menu}
 {click again on Tools menu (do not move the mouse between clicks)}

then you will get grep command, and I'd say inadvertently.  (Obviously
this was on xterm, but I suspect the same happens on other ttys.)

But if you move the mouse between clicks, even slightly, then the menu
selection is cleared, and you won't get grep command.  The menu is
simply closed, as I'd expect.

This has been itching me for quite some time, but not sufficiently
enough to make me write a patch.  I'm not sure if this is a bug or
feature, anyway.

Otherwise I think tty menus are great.

Thanks,
Petteri