* dropdown-list.el
@ 2011-05-21 2:00 Chong Yidong
2011-05-21 9:38 ` dropdown-list.el Lennart Borgman
2011-05-22 6:13 ` dropdown-list.el SAKURAI Masashi
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From: Chong Yidong @ 2011-05-21 2:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-devel
We just received the copyright assignment for dropdown-list.el. This is
a library that simulates "dropdown list" GUI elements by means of
overlay strings.
(This code was originally based on company-mode, which also has an
assignment and is on elpa.gnu.org; we got the assignment for
dropdown-list.el itself since it's used by YASnippet, which is also
going to be on elpa.gnu.org.)
It might be worth putting dropdown-list.el in Emacs core. The code is
not up to Emacs standards, but it is a relatively small library, and so
should not be hard to clean up. Has anyone taken a look at this before?
Opinions welcome.
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* Re: dropdown-list.el
2011-05-21 2:00 dropdown-list.el Chong Yidong
@ 2011-05-21 9:38 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-05-22 6:13 ` dropdown-list.el SAKURAI Masashi
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From: Lennart Borgman @ 2011-05-21 9:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Chong Yidong; +Cc: emacs-devel
On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 4:00 AM, Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> wrote:
> We just received the copyright assignment for dropdown-list.el. This is
> a library that simulates "dropdown list" GUI elements by means of
> overlay strings.
>
> (This code was originally based on company-mode, which also has an
> assignment and is on elpa.gnu.org; we got the assignment for
> dropdown-list.el itself since it's used by YASnippet, which is also
> going to be on elpa.gnu.org.)
>
> It might be worth putting dropdown-list.el in Emacs core. The code is
> not up to Emacs standards, but it is a relatively small library, and so
> should not be hard to clean up. Has anyone taken a look at this before?
> Opinions welcome.
It is a rather nice idea, but it would be much better with support for
real drop down lists.
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* Re: dropdown-list.el
2011-05-21 2:00 dropdown-list.el Chong Yidong
2011-05-21 9:38 ` dropdown-list.el Lennart Borgman
@ 2011-05-22 6:13 ` SAKURAI Masashi
2011-05-22 11:48 ` dropdown-list.el Lennart Borgman
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From: SAKURAI Masashi @ 2011-05-22 6:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-devel
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At Fri, 20 May 2011 22:00:50 -0400,
Chong Yidong wrote:
> :
> It might be worth putting dropdown-list.el in Emacs core. The code is
> not up to Emacs standards, but it is a relatively small library, and so
> should not be hard to clean up. Has anyone taken a look at this before?
> Opinions welcome.
How about popup.el?
It was posted to gnu-emacs-sources on 7 March 2011 by Matsuyama san.
https://github.com/m2ym/popup-el/tree/v0.4
I compared three functions:
- dropdown-list (dropdown-list.el)
- popup-menu (mouse.el)
- popup-menu* (popup.el).
I attached the sample code in which the menus select from a string
list and insert a string.
* dropdown-list (dropdown-list.el)
The code is very short (about 260 lines) and easy to use. Because the menu is drawn by
overlay texts, one can use this function in the terminal.
I think the library is too simple for general purposes.
Particularly, this library can not treat many items well.
* popup-menu (mouse.el)
This function is included in the current Emacs. The menu is drawn by
the GUI menu, so one can not use in the terminal. The construction of
menu items is the same as the usual menu keymaps. But I think it is
little difficult to use for the quick selecting for transient menu
items.
* popup-menu* (popup.el)
The menu is also drawn by overlay texts, so one can use it in the terminal.
The code is not short (about 1000 lines), but it has many functions
and customization points for the general purposes.
It has following functions:
- one can scroll the menu in the case of many items
- incremental search and narrowing
- one can construct a cascading menu
- a menu item can display the summary and documentation
like completion menus in the Eclipse and Visual Studio.
The library popup.el is used by auto-complete (http://cx4a.org/software/auto-complete/).
I hope this article is helpful for discussion.
--
SAKURAI, Masashi (family, given)
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;;; Simple popup menu comparing
(require 'dropdown-list)
(require 'popup)
(defvar ddtest-list
'("Dictaphone"
"Dictaphone's"
"dicta"
"dicta's"
"dictate"
"dictated"
"dictates"
"dictating"
"dictation"
"dictation's"
"dictations"
"dictator"
"dictator's"
"dictatorial"
"dictators"
"dictatorship"
"dictatorship's"
"dictatorships"
"diction"
"diction's"
"dictionaries"
"dictionary"
"dictionary's"
"dictum"
"dictum's"
"dictums"))
(defun ddtest-show-dropdown-list ()
(interactive)
(let ((num (dropdown-list ddtest-list)))
(and num (insert (nth num ddtest-list)))))
(defun ddtest-show-x-popup-menu ()
(interactive)
(let* ((menu-map (make-sparse-keymap "Popup Test")) val)
(mapc (lambda (x)
(lexical-let ((x x))
(define-key menu-map
(vector (intern x))
(cons x (lambda () (interactive) (insert x))))))
ddtest-list)
(popup-menu menu-map)))
(defun ddtest-show-popup-menu ()
(interactive)
(let ((val (popup-menu*
(mapcar (lambda (x)
(popup-make-item x :value x))
ddtest-list)
:scroll-bar t)))
(and val (insert val))))
;; Do it.
;; (ddtest-show-dropdown-list)
;; (ddtest-show-x-popup-menu)
;; (ddtest-show-popup-menu)
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* Re: dropdown-list.el
2011-05-22 6:13 ` dropdown-list.el SAKURAI Masashi
@ 2011-05-22 11:48 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-05-22 12:28 ` dropdown-list.el Leo
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From: Lennart Borgman @ 2011-05-22 11:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: SAKURAI Masashi; +Cc: emacs-devel
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 8:13 AM, SAKURAI Masashi <m.sakurai@kiwanami.net> wrote:
>
> * popup-menu* (popup.el)
>
> The menu is also drawn by overlay texts, so one can use it in the terminal.
> The code is not short (about 1000 lines), but it has many functions
> and customization points for the general purposes.
> It has following functions:
>
> - one can scroll the menu in the case of many items
> - incremental search and narrowing
> - one can construct a cascading menu
> - a menu item can display the summary and documentation
> like completion menus in the Eclipse and Visual Studio.
>
> The library popup.el is used by auto-complete (http://cx4a.org/software/auto-complete/).
Since it uses overlays it can not extend outside of Emacs windows.
This is often quite awful.
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* Re: dropdown-list.el
2011-05-22 11:48 ` dropdown-list.el Lennart Borgman
@ 2011-05-22 12:28 ` Leo
2011-05-22 13:39 ` dropdown-list.el Lennart Borgman
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From: Leo @ 2011-05-22 12:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-devel
On 2011-05-22 19:48 +0800, Lennart Borgman wrote:
> Since it uses overlays it can not extend outside of Emacs windows.
> This is often quite awful.
I found the ability to make a frame without any decorations: no title
bar, no border and scroll bar, no minibuffer etc. very useful. For
example, one can use it to build a notification system that is even more
powerful than the popular choice growl on OSX. I suspect it can also be
used to draw dropdown menus.
Leo
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* Re: dropdown-list.el
2011-05-22 12:28 ` dropdown-list.el Leo
@ 2011-05-22 13:39 ` Lennart Borgman
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From: Lennart Borgman @ 2011-05-22 13:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Leo; +Cc: emacs-devel
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2011-05-22 19:48 +0800, Lennart Borgman wrote:
>> Since it uses overlays it can not extend outside of Emacs windows.
>> This is often quite awful.
>
> I found the ability to make a frame without any decorations: no title
> bar, no border and scroll bar, no minibuffer etc. very useful. For
> example, one can use it to build a notification system that is even more
> powerful than the popular choice growl on OSX. I suspect it can also be
> used to draw dropdown menus.
Some things are missing in Emacs currently to make this useful. I
think we have discussed this earlier (or didn't I suggest some
enhancements then?).
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