Re: New Context Menu

[Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 11:03:01AM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
>> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2021 10:01:10 +0300
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>>
>> What would a good key to bind such command?  Maybe 'S-<f10>'?
>
>Probably.  Or C-M-<f10>.
>
Hi Eli:

There is the [menu] button. It is unused at least in xterm because
it is not bound properly (I sent a message on yesterday).

By default [menu] is bound to the same than M-x, so it is a good trade
of to rebind it in the context-menu map, so by default the current
behavior is not affected. But also, because it will provide the same
behavior than other user interfaces around.

In other terminals (urxvt) such button sends S-<f6>, that is not bound
to anything either. And some others (gnome-terminal) intercept the
binding before reaching emacs... so, I think is a good trade off with
minimal impact.

>> But please note that currently when you select a menu item
>> using the keyboard, many commands will fail with
>>
>>   (error "Command must be bound to an event with parameters")
>
>Those commands should ideally be fixed to not signal such errors,
>because that's not good UI on TTY frames.  Commands that cannot be
>fixed shouldn't appear in the context menus popped on TTY frames to
>begin with.