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: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 02:39:33 +0100 Message-ID: <475F3BD5.3030008@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 1197423603 4809 80.91.229.12 (12 Dec 2007 01:40:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 01:40:03 +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 Wed Dec 12 02:40:11 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 1J2Ga2-0003Rt-Tj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 02:40:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J2GZl-00023N-4l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:39:53 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J2GZf-00020T-0u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:39:47 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J2GZc-0001y5-Vp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:39:46 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J2GZc-0001xs-59 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:39:44 -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 1J2GZU-0000Na-JU; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:39:37 -0500 Original-Received: from c83-254-148-228.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.148.228]:63423 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1J2GZS-0001Xe-3U; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 02:39:34 +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 071210-0, 2007-12-10), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.148.228 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1J2GZS-0001Xe-3U. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1J2GZS-0001Xe-3U 17ce0890b349790763188be2a08089f7 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:85075 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. Could you please reread what I wrote about this? I think you have misunderstod the intention. Popping up menus the way I suggest here while working from the keyboard is quite common. Most often it is tied to the [apps] key. BTW I have proposed a framework for using the [apps] key (so that different modes etc can cooperate on the use of it) but have not have time to clean that file up and send it to the list.