Re: emacs-nox (console version) - how to get menus to work

[Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@web.de>]

Am 28.09.2013 um 11:41 schrieb James Freer:

> So it must be a simple keystroke I'd have thought.

It is – only that you don't get yet pull-down menus, as Eli wrote. What you get is something like this (edited a bit):

	File Edit Options Buffers Tools Minibuf Help                                                                        
	("emacs")
	For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
	Making completion list... [2 times]
	You can run the command `tmm-menubar' with M-`
	Making completion list...
	
	
	
	
	-UUU:**--F1  *Messages*     All L6     (Fundamental) -------------------------------
	Press PageUp key to reach this buffer from the minibuffer.
	Alternatively, you can use Up/Down keys (or your History keys) to change
	the item in the minibuffer, and press RET when you are done, or press the
	marked letters to pick up your choice.  Type C-g or ESC ESC ESC to cancel.
	In this buffer, type RET to select the completion near point.
	
	Possible completions are:
	b==>Buffers               e==>Edit                  f==>File
	h==>Help                  o==>Options               t==>Tools
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	-UUU:%*--F1  *Completions*   All L1     (Completion List) --------------------------
	Menu bar (up/down to change, PgUp to menu): f==>File

There are two windows. I pressed F10 in one of them, the upper one, *Messages*, and it divided, showing the list of menus in the "menu bar" in the newly created *Completions* buffer. The mini-buffer shows a first choice that you can override plus a means to navigate through the menus and menu entries. When you have chosen a menu, the *Completions* buffer then shows the entries of this selected menu. And so on.

It's probably easier to work through the tutorial and learn a few commands bound to keys…

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  Pete

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