Re: How to bind pop up menu to a key?

[Neon Absentius <absent@sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 10:16:30PM -0800, rgb wrote:
 > Between this function and the Emacs Lisp Reference manual you can
> probably find a way to create the appropriate event.
> 
> (defun event-test (event)
>   (interactive "@e")
>   (message "Event = %s" event)
> )
> (global-set-key [S-mouse-3] 'event-test)
> 
> >From what returned above I was able to get the menu to pop up.
> See below.  Looks promising.  The word `keyboard' was made up.
> The above said S-mouse-3 like you'd expect.
> 
> M-: (mouse-popup-menubar `(keyboard (,(selected-window)
>                                 248 (126 . 104) 70080603
>                                 nil 248 (15 . 6) nil
>                                 (6 . 8) (8 . 16))) ()) <ret>
> 

Thank you, this was very useful. 

I haven't had to time to pay any serious attention to this, but today
I played little bit bit with it and it looks promising.

If anything comes out of it I'll post.

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