From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: emacs on a text console - please help me overcome the shock Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:17:06 -0700 Message-ID: <6C8EE807D71248ABBC3AE5568E993AFB@us.oracle.com> References: <1313999734.92604.YahooMailClassic@web25401.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <83ipppice6.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1314044246 27532 80.91.229.12 (22 Aug 2011 20:17:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 20:17:26 +0000 (UTC) To: Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 22 22:17:22 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qvavv-0000BZ-RV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 22:17:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49550 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qvavv-0007ZU-3c for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 16:17:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:51944) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qvavr-0007Yz-EY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 16:17:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qvavp-00019Q-Td for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 16:17:15 -0400 Original-Received: from rcsinet15.oracle.com ([148.87.113.117]:58940) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qvavp-00019M-Nv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 16:17:13 -0400 Original-Received: from rtcsinet22.oracle.com (rtcsinet22.oracle.com [66.248.204.30]) by rcsinet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.4/Switch-3.4.4) with ESMTP id p7MKHAVx001838 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 20:17:12 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt358.oracle.com (acsmt358.oracle.com [141.146.40.158]) by rtcsinet22.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p7MKH9MU023969 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 20:17:10 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt113.oracle.com (abhmt113.oracle.com [141.146.116.65]) by acsmt358.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id p7MKH3QB010938 for ; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 15:17:03 -0500 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/130.35.178.194) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:17:03 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 Thread-Index: Acxg8PJGbdOpS1PuQtmoOsPUQroVQQAFrQ6A In-Reply-To: <83ipppice6.fsf@gnu.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6109 X-Source-IP: rtcsinet22.oracle.com [66.248.204.30] X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090206.4E52B948.0179,ss=1,re=0.000,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-Received-From: 148.87.113.117 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:82013 Archived-At: > > I cannot navigate the menus as usual, menu-bar-open is weird and unfriendly. > > Yes, menus don't work on a TTY, except via text emulation through the > minibuffer. `f10' gives you keyboard access to the menu-bar menus, as Eli suggested. If you use LaCarte, you will get different and better access (IMHO). If you also use Icicles, access will improve even more (IMHO). http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/LaCarte http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Icicles