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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: MS-DOS pull-down menus...
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 18:10:21 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83k3jln02q.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130816155321.03edb5b1@Yoda>

> Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 15:53:21 +0100
> From: Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko@gmail.com>
> 
> > > 1) Is there a package to recreate the old MS-DOS pull-down menu
> > > display, instead of the default "open new buffer to display menu
> > > items" behavior (invoked by F10)?  
> > 
> > I don't think so.  Someone(TM) should back-port the DOS code that
> > supports menus of a text-only terminal to the rest of Emacs
> > platforms.  
> 
> Now (couple of years later), I have the follow-up question:
> 
> Can anyone give me a link to download this DOS code? I'd like to take a
> look... :-)

It's part of Emacs's own sources, look in src/msdos.c there (search
for "menus".

(I actually started writing such support for Unix TTYs, but ran out of
time before I could finish that project.  I should pick that up some
day.)



  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-16 15:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-16 14:53 MS-DOS pull-down menus Marko Vojinovic
2013-08-16 15:10 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-08-16 21:29   ` Marko Vojinovic

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