From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Creating a menu/pop-up? Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 10:48:22 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3F0069D6.8030804@yahoo.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1056992050 476 80.91.224.249 (30 Jun 2003 16:54:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 16:54:10 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 30 18:54:07 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19X1uo-000075-00 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 18:54:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19X1rV-0003mx-Bp for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 12:50:41 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 34 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1056991701 30968749 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:114852 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:11345 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:11345 Mike Ballard wrote: > Anyone have an idea or two for an elisp neophyte so that I can create a > pop-up showing my list of text files such that clicking on one of the > files runs it under steno? How's this for a start: (defun mouse-steno-popup (e) "Pop up a menu of *.txt files in the ~ directory. E is a mouse event." (interactive "e") (let ((steno-menu (steno-popup-menu))) ; keymap (call-interactively (lookup-key steno-menu (vector (x-popup-menu e steno-menu)))))) (global-set-key [S-down-mouse-3] 'mouse-steno-popup) (defun steno-popup-menu () "Return a menu keymap mapping each ~/*.txt file to \\[steno-command]." (let ((menu (make-sparse-keymap "Steno Files")) (files (nreverse (directory-files "~" nil "\\.txt\\'")))) (while files (define-key menu (vector (intern (car files))) (cons (car files) `(lambda () ,(format "Run \\[steno-command] on \"%s\"." (car files)) (interactive) (steno-command ,(car files))))) (setq files (cdr files))) menu)) -- Kevin Rodgers