From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marko Vojinovic Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: MS-DOS pull-down menus... Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 15:53:21 +0100 Message-ID: <20130816155321.03edb5b1@Yoda> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1376664831 3407 80.91.229.3 (16 Aug 2013 14:53:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 14:53:51 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 16 16:53:52 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VALPT-0006Pa-1n for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Aug 2013 16:53:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59507 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VALPS-00011k-Ox for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Aug 2013 10:53:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53477) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VALP9-0000uN-IJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Aug 2013 10:53:36 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VALP4-0003IH-32 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Aug 2013 10:53:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-wi0-x235.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c05::235]:59012) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VALP3-0003Hj-TM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Aug 2013 10:53:26 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-wi0-f181.google.com with SMTP id en1so883079wid.14 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 2013 07:53:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=cV3KpUIrBZTfQXh0jOLoktEcQcE6iMS3gWLy/theFjA=; b=uQRMsG4ZHful7RwBIFjURylfdF4Qg/pAazGlVLSf7TGk9NLvqTAYo28wVYQyBGfzQV Zl6dpfTFcMFd36mC7+IjRULvKh9YK7HrLIdxKjALYl1lln9A2cFnBUbDA5EEQcIx/JBy 4kbABqXGJoXePmbuaITmUv8fwUGi3uzaK69R/0GXDgZsKShqdznzQa7Cb7u8ouDt9YcB Ry89jrlJF2q00umyDKP8y+y/9c5CwxM3yGN34W0FDFG0VZ8iEwa5nL+ut3OKRGlXn+yz 97LBTf77vwfSZE2OLf3f3wTGMDTGDnu9C/QI9IDXEg34IXM/3KF+/gyhMXmxCMFYuGMk +seg== X-Received: by 10.180.36.133 with SMTP id q5mr1394928wij.0.1376664805001; Fri, 16 Aug 2013 07:53:25 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from Yoda (88.210.96.89.rev.optimus.pt. [88.210.96.89]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id dt17sm8857113wic.1.1969.12.31.16.00.00 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Fri, 16 Aug 2013 07:53:24 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.2 (GTK+ 2.24.19; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:400c:c05::235 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:92931 Archived-At: Hi everyone! :-) When I first joined this list, I asked a question about the support for DOS-like look&feel menus in Emacs (when run in a text terminal). Eli gave me the following answer [1]: On Monday 25 July 2011 16:14:58 Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: Marko Vojinovic > > Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 23:22:31 +0100 > > > > 1) Is there a package to recreate the old MS-DOS pull-down menu > > display, instead of the default "open new buffer to display menu > > items" behavior (invoked by F10)? > > I don't think so. Someone(TM) should back-port the DOS code that > supports menus of a text-only terminal to the rest of Emacs > platforms. Now (couple of years later), I have the follow-up question: Can anyone give me a link to download this DOS code? I'd like to take a look... :-) Best, :-) Marko [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2011-07/msg00296.html