From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Support routines for popup menus Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:16:20 +0100 Message-ID: <47558B64.5070309@gmail.com> References: <475352DC.1090807@gmail.com> <4754573D.2070708@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1196788617 5448 80.91.229.12 (4 Dec 2007 17:16:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 17:16:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 04 18:17:05 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IzbOF-0006aw-2A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:16:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IzbNy-0006eb-9f for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Dec 2007 12:16:42 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IzbNu-0006eD-Eu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Dec 2007 12:16:38 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IzbNs-0006ca-Eb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Dec 2007 12:16:37 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IzbNs-0006cB-5U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Dec 2007 12:16:36 -0500 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IzbNn-0002Wj-BM; Tue, 04 Dec 2007 12:16:31 -0500 Original-Received: from c83-254-148-228.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.148.228]:61793 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1IzbNl-0000f6-4r; Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:16:29 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 071204-0, 2007-12-04), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.148.228 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1IzbNl-0000f6-4r. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1IzbNl-0000f6-4r ead3a0d44088851aec0b5e930046bd11 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:84661 Archived-At: 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.