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From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Horrible File menu
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2022 17:46:04 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o83sdyqr.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86r18os4ng.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (Juri Linkov's message of "Mon,  31 Jan 2022 10:13:04 +0200")

Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> writes:

>>> So by default, even when you don't use frames, these items take much
>>> space on the File menu:
>>>
>>>   (disabled) Delete frame
>>>   (disabled) Undelete frame
>>>   [X] Allow Undeleting Frames
>>
>> "Delete Frame" is not a recent development.  It's been there for a long
>> time, along with New Frame and the various monitor and multi-tty related
>> variants of that.

> To make the menu shorter, does it make sense to hide "Delete frame"?

It does not.

> Especially the users who don't use frames would benefit from this.  Or
> at least not to show the disabled "Undelete frame" until "Delete
> frame" changes to the enabled state.

How does someone "not use frames"?  I thought that stopped being
possible with Emacs 19, when every X window became a frame.

> What do you think about another variant to make the menu shorter: to
> move frame items to the File>Frame submenu?

That I can agree with (but please let Eli and some other regulars
comment first), thanks.



  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-31  9:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-30 20:59 Horrible File menu Juri Linkov
2022-01-30 21:45 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-31  1:01   ` Phil Sainty
2022-01-31  0:48 ` Po Lu
2022-01-31  8:13   ` Juri Linkov
2022-01-31  9:46     ` Po Lu [this message]
2022-01-31 10:38       ` Robert Pluim
2022-01-31 11:08         ` Po Lu
2022-01-31 13:04         ` Stefan Monnier
2022-01-31 13:16           ` Robert Pluim
2022-01-31 13:16           ` Po Lu
2022-01-31 13:36             ` Robert Pluim
2022-01-31 13:48               ` Po Lu
2022-01-31 15:01                 ` Robert Pluim
2022-02-01  1:03                   ` Po Lu
2022-02-01  8:56                     ` Robert Pluim
2022-02-01 10:20                       ` Po Lu
2022-01-31 12:37     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-31 14:45     ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-02-01 21:27 ` Rudolf Adamkovič
2022-02-02  1:16 ` chad
2022-02-02  4:45   ` Po Lu

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