Removing outline mode menus

Removing outline mode menus

[Sean Richards]

I have just started using outline mode for Python and Latex and once I
figured how to set it up it works great. However I would like outline
mode not to add menus to the menu bar as I only use some keybindings to
open and close folds. Is this possible ?

Sean

[GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)]

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Re: Removing outline mode menus

[Stefan Monnier]

> I have just started using outline mode for Python and Latex and once I
> figured how to set it up it works great. However I would like outline
> mode not to add menus to the menu bar as I only use some keybindings to
> open and close folds. Is this possible ?

You can do something like

(define-key outline-mode-menu-bar-map [headings] nil)
(define-key outline-mode-menu-bar-map [show] nil)
(define-key outline-mode-menu-bar-map [hide] nil)

But make sure this is run after outline.el is loaded.
Or you can just do

(setq outline-mode-menu-bar-map (make-sparse-keymap))

before outline.el is loaded.  In Emacs-CVS, those three menus have been
collapsed (in the outline-minor-mode only) into one called "Outline" since
the use of three menus for a single minor mode seemed way out of line to me.


        Stefan

Re: Removing outline mode menus

[Sean Richards]

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

>> I have just started using outline mode for Python and Latex and once I
>> figured how to set it up it works great. However I would like outline
>> mode not to add menus to the menu bar as I only use some keybindings to
>> open and close folds. Is this possible ?
>
> You can do something like
>
> (define-key outline-mode-menu-bar-map [headings] nil)
> (define-key outline-mode-menu-bar-map [show] nil)
> (define-key outline-mode-menu-bar-map [hide] nil)
>
> But make sure this is run after outline.el is loaded.

Thanks Stefan that did the trick. I used
 
(eval-after-load "outline" ......

Is that the preferred method for running something after a mode has been
loaded? 

> In Emacs-CVS, those three menus have been collapsed (in the
> outline-minor-mode only) into one called "Outline" since the use of
> three menus for a single minor mode seemed way out of line to me.

Good idea, seems an overkill to have 3 separate menus for a minor-mode

I use a slightly modified version of a function you posted a few years
ago to toggle the visibility of an outline entry. I use Viper mode and
have mapped that function to "SPC" (not in insert mode obviously) makes
using outline-mode very nice.  If anyone is interested in the function
you can find it here
 
http://groups.google.co.nz/groups?selm=39dce10c%241%40tequila.cs.yale.edu

Cheers,  Sean
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