From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Micha Feigin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs for everything? Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 01:08:59 +0200 Message-ID: <871xeeanzo.wl%micha@litshi.luna.local> References: <87pt2ej98v.fsf@node1.ddorf.de> <87zn1g2t5j.fld@barrow.com> <876540gxzw.fld@barrow.com> <87653u4x4t.fld@barrow.com> <86sm6voy32.fsf@ketchup.de.uu.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1101633634 27056 80.91.229.6 (28 Nov 2004 09:20:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 09:20:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 28 10:20:29 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CYLEK-0002OS-00 for ; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 10:20:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CYLNf-0002ho-5d for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 04:30:07 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CYLN9-0002hR-Gh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 04:29:35 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CYLN7-0002h8-T9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 04:29:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CYLN7-0002gx-F6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 04:29:33 -0500 Original-Received: from [132.66.16.11] (helo=post.tau.ac.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CYLDX-0007xs-RT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 04:19:40 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by post.tau.ac.il (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C52133A70E; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 11:17:36 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from post.tau.ac.il (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (VaMailArmor-2.0.2-6) id 16512-259468FC; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 11:17:32 +0200 Original-Received: from litshi.luna.local (math201-1.tau.ac.il [132.66.40.199]) by post.tau.ac.il (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E03933A742; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 11:17:32 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=litshi.luna.local) by litshi.luna.local with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CYLBb-0000bu-BT; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 11:17:39 +0200 Original-To: Kai Grossjohann In-Reply-To: <86sm6voy32.fsf@ketchup.de.uu.net> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.11.30 (Wonderwall) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.6 (Marutamachi) APEL/10.6 Emacs/21.3 (i386-pc-linux-gnu) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) X-AntiVirus: checked by Vexira MailArmor (version: 2.0.2-6; VAE: 6.28.0.18; VDF: 6.28.0.93; host: localhost) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:22393 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:22393 At Sat, 27 Nov 2004 21:07:13 +0100, Kai Grossjohann wrote: > > floyd@barrow.com (Floyd L. Davidson) writes: > > > Kai Grossjohann wrote: > > > >>The Windows-style Start menu navigation is also quite nice: P selects > >>the only item starting with P. If there is more than one item > >>starting with P, then P moves to the first one, and you can hit P > >>again to move to the next one. Then RET selects it. > > > > That is a very fundamental difference in what we do with window > > managers. I start virtually *no* applications from a window manager, > > either by menu or with icons. I work in many different directories, > > and anything started by the window manager thinks it is in the > > home directory. So I start almost everything from a command line. > > The exceptions are tools that are not tied to any given working > > directory (xmag, a couple local database programs, xcalc, my clock, > > stuff like that). > > There's a misunderstanding, here. I was only referring to the way how > you can select items from the Windows Start menu using the keyboard. > > I didn't mean that the Window Start menu, per se, is useful. > > But the menu navigation could be used for any menu, such as for the > list of windows, or for the window operations (you know, iconify, > maximize, resize, ...), or you name it. > > > Please note that the Windows Start menu navigation is different from > the way other Windows menus are navigated. In the other menus, each > item has an underlined character which serves as the accelerator. But > the Windows Start menu provides for two items having the same > accelerator, and it does not require explicit specification of the > accelerator (it's always the first character). > > >>There is a feature sometimes called "window tabs", or "piles".[...] > > > > Wow, that looks very useful. > > Perhaps fvwm has a module for this? > > ... surfs fvwm.org ... > > No, I couldn't find anything. Hm. But I think I heard something > about it. Hm. > You are probably talking about fvwmtabs http://users.tpg.com.au/users/scottie7/fvwmtabs.html > Kai > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Help-gnu-emacs mailing list > Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System > at the Tel-Aviv University CC. >