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From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm)
Cc: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: tweak to apropos-command display
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 23:31:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3sm3ofcqr.fsf@kfs-l.imdomain.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878y5g2qpx.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Tue, 22 Feb 2005 17:13:28 -0500")

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> I like M-x ... RET better.
>
> I like the empty string even better: these are commands so of course we can
> invoke them via M-x (unless they use an "e" in their interactive spec).

Me too.

>
>> 1) If menu-bar-mode is disabled, it doesn't mention menu bar bindings.
>
> I have disabled menu-bar-mode to save some screen real estate, but I still
> do use the menus (via C-down-mouse-3).  So I'm not sure it's worth the trouble.
>
>> 2) It pretty prints menu bar entries like this:
>>     e.g. "File Menu" rather than "<menu-bar> <file> <new-file>"
>
> Why not "File => New File..." ?
>
> Note that the displayed name of "<menu-bar> <foo>" is not necessarily
> "Foo".  You'd really want to look at the menu-item's name string instead of
> capitalizing the symbol-name.

How do I get that info from lisp ?

-- 
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk> http://www.cua.dk

      reply	other threads:[~2005-02-22 22:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-02-21 14:35 tweak to apropos-command display Chong Yidong
2005-02-21 15:04 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-02-21 16:26   ` Chong Yidong
2005-02-21 15:14 ` Stefan
2005-02-21 16:36   ` Chong Yidong
2005-02-22 18:11 ` Richard Stallman
2005-02-22 20:36   ` Kevin Rodgers
2005-02-22 21:46   ` Kim F. Storm
2005-02-22 22:01     ` David Kastrup
2005-02-22 22:28       ` Kim F. Storm
2005-02-28 12:14       ` Tweak to key-description for menu bindings (was Re: tweak to apropos-command display) Kim F. Storm
2005-02-28 12:55         ` Tweak to key-description for menu bindings David Kastrup
2005-03-01 23:36           ` Kim F. Storm
2005-02-28 21:53         ` Tweak to key-description for menu bindings (was Re: tweak to apropos-command display) Richard Stallman
2005-02-28 22:47           ` Tweak to key-description for menu bindings Kim F. Storm
2005-02-22 22:13     ` tweak to apropos-command display Stefan Monnier
2005-02-22 22:31       ` Kim F. Storm [this message]

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