From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: mode-line menu for minor modes Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:39:46 -0800 Message-ID: <008201c87372$3d5b2ab0$0600a8c0@us.oracle.com> References: <200802190809.m1J89C74001353@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1203478887 31468 80.91.229.12 (20 Feb 2008 03:41:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 03:41:27 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Dan Nicolaescu'" , Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 20 04:41:50 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JRfq9-0000Rt-RU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 04:41:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JRfpf-0003cl-1i for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:41:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JRfp5-0003Ns-GO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:40:43 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JRfp3-0003MD-EC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:40:42 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JRfp3-0003M5-8o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:40:41 -0500 Original-Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JRfp3-0005uq-0K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:40:41 -0500 Original-Received: from rgmgw1.us.oracle.com (rgmgw1.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.110]) by rgminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id m1K3ec0L001008; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:40:38 -0700 Original-Received: from acsmt351.oracle.com (acsmt351.oracle.com [141.146.40.151]) by rgmgw1.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.2.4) with ESMTP id m1K2Nmhu017950; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:40:37 -0700 Original-Received: from inet-141-146-46-1.oracle.com by acsmt350.oracle.com with ESMTP id 3582449851203478787; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:39:47 -0800 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/141.144.73.97) by bhmail.oracle.com (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:39:47 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <200802190809.m1J89C74001353@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> x-mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 Thread-Index: AchyzuroqKEEvZdjTZyusLBeBB6d2gAo0Afw X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:89642 Archived-At: > The new feature to pop a menu when clicking on the mode-line > :lighter for > minor modes is great. > > But for minor modes that don't provide a menu, just an error > message is > displayed: "No menu for minor mode `BLAH'". This is not very helpful > for the user, it would be nicer to pop up a menu that has (at least) 2 > entries: - one to turn off the minor mode > - one to show the help for that minor mode. > > Yes, these are available elsewhere, but it's better to > provide something > useful and consistent for mouse-1 instead of just complaining that a > menu is not available. Good idea.