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From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Support routines for popup menus
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:16:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47558B64.5070309@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1Izb46-0004Dv-OJ@fencepost.gnu.org>

Richard Stallman wrote:
>     To show the menu where point is, not where the mouse cursor is. It 
>     displays the menu under the point with point visible, if possible. (If 
> 
> I expect people will find that very strange and inconvenient.

I guess you are misunderstanding. The purpose is not to show the popup 
menu at the point when clicking with the mouse.

I thinks computer users today are used to menus that popup at the point 
for operations that has something to do with the text at point - even 
when they work with the keyboard. I have for example used this for 
completion in nXhtml:

   http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/nXhtml/doc/nxhtml.html#completion

I think there are other Emacs libraries that does similar things.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-04 17:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-03  0:50 Support routines for popup menus Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-12-03 18:43 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-03 19:21   ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-12-04 16:56     ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-04 17:16       ` Lennart Borgman (gmail) [this message]
2007-12-12  1:39       ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-12-12 22:52         ` Richard Stallman

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