Re: FW: Minibuf menu when minibuffer is standalone

["Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

Drew Adams wrote:
> Resending.
> 
> From: Drew Adams Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2007 8:26 AM
> Resending, since the release is now out.
> 
>> From: Drew Adams Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2007 1:02 PM  
>> Consider as a possible enhancement somehow making the Minibuf 
>> menu-bar menu available also when the minibuffer is in a
>> standalone frame (frame parameter minibuffer has value `only').
>>
>> Because the minibuffer maps are local maps, when you have a
>> standalone minibuffer frame, which has no menu-bar, the Minibuf
>> menu-bar menu is not available anywhere. (The other frames do
>> not have minibuffers, and their buffers do not have the
>> minibuffer map as local map.)
>>
>> Perhaps menu Minibuf could somehow be made to appear in all 
>> frames that have a menu-bar, whenever the minibuffer is active.
>> I'm not sure how that might be implemented, because it is good
>> to keep the current situation of the minibuffer maps being
>> local to the minibuffer. But if a good implementation could be
>> found, it would be desirable to have the Minibuf menu available
>> also for users who have a standalone minibuffer.


Maybe as a popup menu bound to <apps> when the minibuffer is active?