Re: Making Menu Bar with an About Buffer

[Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>]

* Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> [2022-10-17 00:38]:
> Have seen that Emacs has "About Emacs" and "About Gnu". I would like to do the same with a new "Menu Bar"
> called "Gundit" where there is "About Gundit" which prints about Gundit in a dedicated buffer.
> 
> How can this be done?

You define function and add it to menu.

My function below uses about: hyperlinks, it decides what to display.

I have defined "about:" hyperlink in `browse-url-handlers' to be:

   '(("gemini:" . elpher-go)
     ("gopher:" . elpher-handler-go)
     ("about:" . hyperscope-about)
     ("hyperscope:" . hyperscope-go)
     ("e2dk://" . amule-handler)))


Then this function is showing About, it has Hyperlinks underline where
it says about:

(defun hyperscope-about (&rest what)
  (interactive)
  (let* ((what (if (eql 'cons (type-of what))
		   (car what)
		 what))
	 (what (if (null what) "about:hyperscope" what)))
    (cond ((string= what "about:hyperscope") (hyperscope-text-view "
	 ===================================================
	 Hyperscope - Dynamic Knowledge Repository for Emacs
	 ===================================================
                           about:emacs
                           about:emacs-fancy
                           about:hyperscope
"))
	  ((string= what "about:emacs") (about-emacs))
	  ((string= what "about:emacs-fancy") (fancy-about-screen))
	  (t (hyperscope-text-view "Maybe you wish to read about:hyperscope")))))


-- 
Jean

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