From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Semi-unhelpful error message given when trying to (provide 'CUA-mode) Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 20:56:05 -0400 Message-ID: References: <85u07keslp.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1148172981 13686 80.91.229.2 (21 May 2006 00:56:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 00:56:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: acm@muc.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 21 02:56:20 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FhcF1-00016s-9F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 May 2006 02:56:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FhcF0-0001xL-Rq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 May 2006 20:56:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FhcEp-0001wo-G6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 May 2006 20:56:07 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FhcEo-0001wa-Ex for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 May 2006 20:56:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FhcEo-0001wX-9Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 May 2006 20:56:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FhcIS-0003YD-P0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 May 2006 20:59:52 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1FhcEn-0002f2-0x; Sat, 20 May 2006 20:56:05 -0400 Original-To: David Kastrup In-reply-to: <85u07keslp.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (message from David Kastrup on Sat, 20 May 2006 15:25:06 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:54914 Archived-At: > In Emacs-22.0.50, if you try to load a legacy cua-mode.el (or whatever), > an eval-after-load form tells you to set the CUA option via the menu. > This is useful only to users who have a mouse and like using it. F10 exists, and the menu bar is displayed by default. So the menu is clearly intended to be used by tty users as well. I agree with ACM here. Menus do work on the terminal, but they are not convenient on the terminal, and hard-core Emacs users would probably prefer M-x commands to menu items on any kind of display.