From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Drop-down menus, popup menus, and popup dialogs supported on TTYs
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 21:24:52 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <831u3vsjrf.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
Trunk revision 114582 adds support for menus on a text-mode terminal.
Typing F10 will drop the Files menu, and you can get to the others by
using C-f/C-b and the right/left arrow keys. Within a menu, C-n/C-p
and the up/down arrows allow navigation between items, and RET selects
an item. Help-echo for menu items is displayed in the echo area.
If you have a mouse supported, clicking on the menu bar should drop
down the menu under the click; clicking on the mode line or on the
text area should pop up menus specific to those areas. Navigation
within the menu and selection with a mouse work as you'd expect.
I tested this on the w32 text terminal, with and without a mouse, and
on GNU/Linux without a mouse. Xterm-mouse still doesn't work as
expected, so there's probably something else to be done about that.
Please test on GNU/Linux terminals with GPM. Also, I hope I didn't
break the GUI frames (other than w32, which I tested). The NS build
is my greatest worry, as I couldn't even try compiling it.
HAVE_MENUS is now unconditionally defined by configure. I didn't yet
remove HAVE_MENUS from the sources, because that could serve as
stopgap and temporary work-around, in case I screwed up some build.
Also, perhaps people will want to have a --without-menus option at
configure time.
This was a long journey for me, it started years ago, when I discussed
possible implementations with Gerd Moellmann (his ideas are at the
core of the implementation, see the commentary in term.c). Now it's
over. Enjoy the results.
next reply other threads:[~2013-10-08 18:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-08 18:24 Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-10-08 20:18 ` Drop-down menus, popup menus, and popup dialogs supported on TTYs chad
2013-10-09 2:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-09 4:32 ` Masatake YAMATO
2013-10-09 16:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-09 17:07 ` Dani Moncayo
2013-10-09 17:46 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2013-10-09 17:56 ` Gregor Zattler
2013-10-09 18:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-09 21:26 ` Gregor Zattler
2013-10-10 2:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-10 8:33 ` Gregor Zattler
2013-10-10 9:01 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-10-09 18:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-09 19:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-11 17:01 ` Dani Moncayo
2013-10-11 17:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-11 17:56 ` Dani Moncayo
2013-10-11 18:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-11 18:32 ` Dani Moncayo
2013-10-12 0:49 ` Masatake YAMATO
2013-10-12 7:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-12 9:34 ` Dani Moncayo
2013-10-11 18:06 ` Masatake YAMATO
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