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From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: mode-line menu for minor modes
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:29:18 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200802200629.m1K6TIoH027637@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <008201c87372$3d5b2ab0$0600a8c0@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:39:46 -0800")

"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

  > > 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.

Given that you wrote the rest of the minor mode menu popup code, do you
want to implement this too?




  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-20  6:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-19  8:09 mode-line menu for minor modes Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-20  3:39 ` Drew Adams
2008-02-20  6:29   ` Dan Nicolaescu [this message]
2008-02-21  0:11     ` Drew Adams
2008-02-21  9:17       ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-21  9:27         ` Drew Adams
2008-02-21  9:32           ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-25  7:48             ` Bastien Guerry
2008-02-25 15:22               ` Drew Adams
2008-02-25 15:37                 ` Bastien Guerry
2008-02-25 16:32                   ` Drew Adams
2008-02-25 15:47               ` Stefan Monnier

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