From: Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
Cc: "Miles Bader" <miles@gnu.org>, "Ben Wing" <ben@666.com>,
"Pavel Janík" <Pavel@Janik.cz>,
"Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs@RUM.cs.yale.edu>,
gerd@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: C-l while in menu?
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 13:42:44 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0204231336300.22541-100000@yxa.extundo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1020423140246.25849B-100000@is>
On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Ben Wing <ben@666.com> writes:
> > > the fact is that things work quite well when you have only a meta key.
> > > e.g. meta+letter is an accelerator only when such a menu exists;
> > > otherwise, you get the regular binding -- and even then you can
> > > retrieve the shadowed binding with shift+meta+letter.
> >
> > Do people really like this?
>
> I don't. One ``feature'' that particularly annoys me is that, as Ben
> described, pressing Alt alone and then releasing it activates the menu
> bar. So if I press Alt and then change my mind, I need to remember to
> type ESC or something similar before I can type text again. That's a
> real dumper on fast typing.
In theory I agree, but after using KDE apps some time I find my self
pressing ESC without thinking if I happen to press Alt and change my mind.
KDE and Windows behave the same, but GNOME does not, so it is not easy to
chose.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-23 11:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 93+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <m3k7rjoamp.fsf@Janik.cz>
[not found] ` <200204072343.g37NhIC20114@aztec.santafe.edu>
2002-04-19 18:58 ` C-l while in menu? Pavel Janík
2002-04-20 17:27 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-20 21:06 ` Pavel Janík
2002-04-21 11:17 ` Gerd Moellmann
2002-04-21 13:23 ` Pavel Janík
2002-04-21 14:04 ` Gerd Moellmann
2002-05-08 14:38 ` Pavel Janík
2002-05-08 18:16 ` Gerd Moellmann
2002-05-08 18:49 ` Pavel Janík
2002-05-10 0:29 ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-11 8:53 ` Pavel Janík
2002-05-13 14:17 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-22 7:46 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-22 8:55 ` Pavel Janík
2002-04-22 10:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-04-22 12:59 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-22 17:47 ` Kim F. Storm
2002-04-23 2:05 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-22 19:47 ` Jan D.
2002-04-23 19:30 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-22 9:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-04-22 13:04 ` Ben Wing
2002-04-22 13:42 ` Pavel Janík
2002-04-23 9:13 ` Ben Wing
2002-04-23 9:35 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-23 11:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-23 10:22 ` Gerd Moellmann
2002-04-23 11:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-23 11:42 ` Simon Josefsson [this message]
2002-04-24 17:55 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-24 18:29 ` Simon Josefsson
2002-04-26 3:17 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-24 18:37 ` Gerd Moellmann
2002-04-26 3:20 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-24 10:42 ` Ben Wing
2002-04-24 11:27 ` Simon Josefsson
2002-04-24 15:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-24 14:40 ` Pavel Janík
2002-04-24 15:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-25 6:06 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-23 12:06 ` Kim F. Storm
2002-04-23 11:44 ` Simon Josefsson
2002-04-24 10:56 ` Ben Wing
[not found] ` <3CC68F57.4060901@666.com>
2002-04-24 11:15 ` Simon Josefsson
2002-04-24 12:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-04-24 15:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-23 11:53 ` Robert J. Chassell
2002-04-23 14:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-04-24 10:44 ` Ben Wing
2002-04-24 15:37 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-04-25 6:06 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-25 8:05 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2002-04-25 9:13 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-04-25 10:22 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2002-04-26 3:18 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-26 11:14 ` Gerd Moellmann
2002-04-25 11:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-23 9:32 ` Ben Wing
[not found] ` <3CC52A2F.6010704@666.com>
2002-04-23 9:51 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-04-23 11:20 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2002-04-23 19:30 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-23 20:22 ` Karl Eichwalder
2002-04-24 4:12 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-25 6:07 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-25 7:21 ` Karl Eichwalder
2002-04-25 7:35 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-25 12:00 ` Robert J. Chassell
2002-04-25 12:21 ` Andreas Schwab
2002-04-25 13:00 ` Robert J. Chassell
2002-04-25 13:11 ` Andreas Schwab
2002-04-25 14:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-25 14:39 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-04-25 16:19 ` Robert J. Chassell
2002-04-25 19:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-25 20:16 ` Jason Rumney
2002-04-25 23:10 ` Robert J. Chassell
2002-04-25 23:21 ` Robert J. Chassell
2002-04-26 1:23 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-26 17:38 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-26 3:18 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-23 0:24 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-22 11:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-23 19:31 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-23 20:13 ` Pavel Janík
2002-04-25 6:05 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-25 11:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-22 1:27 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-22 6:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.44.0204241307080.32219-100000@yxa.extundo.com>
2002-04-24 14:36 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2002-04-24 15:33 ` Kai Großjohann
[not found] ` <vaf662hjelc.fsf@INBOX.auto.emacs.devel.tok.lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
2002-04-24 16:23 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2002-04-24 18:15 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-04-25 2:23 ` Hrvoje Niksic
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