From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: MS-DOS pull-down menus... Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 18:10:21 +0300 Message-ID: <83k3jln02q.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20130816155321.03edb5b1@Yoda> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1376665814 13674 80.91.229.3 (16 Aug 2013 15:10:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 15:10:14 +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 17:10:15 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 1VALfL-0003My-4n for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Aug 2013 17:10:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59572 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VALfK-0001En-LE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Aug 2013 11:10:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57280) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VALf3-0001BJ-Kl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Aug 2013 11:10:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VALew-0000Nv-9o for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Aug 2013 11:09:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:50173) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VALew-0000NT-1F for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Aug 2013 11:09:50 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MRM00700PXF2000@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Aug 2013 18:09:48 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MRM007RTQ4B0Z30@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Aug 2013 18:09:48 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <20130816155321.03edb5b1@Yoda> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 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:92932 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 15:53:21 +0100 > From: Marko Vojinovic > > > > 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... :-) It's part of Emacs's own sources, look in src/msdos.c there (search for "menus". (I actually started writing such support for Unix TTYs, but ran out of time before I could finish that project. I should pick that up some day.)