From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Semi-unhelpful error message given when trying to (provide 'CUA-mode) Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 15:25:06 +0200 Message-ID: <85u07keslp.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1148131551 3650 80.91.229.2 (20 May 2006 13:25:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 13:25:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 20 15:25:48 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FhRSm-00071k-1T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 May 2006 15:25:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FhRSl-0000u6-2w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 May 2006 09:25:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FhRSX-0000qv-Cz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 May 2006 09:25:33 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FhRSV-0000pU-UI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 May 2006 09:25:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FhRSV-0000pH-R4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 May 2006 09:25:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FhRW3-0004pG-O7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 May 2006 09:29:11 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1FhRSV-0001vw-3D; Sat, 20 May 2006 09:25:31 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 94B981C27933; Sat, 20 May 2006 15:25:06 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Alan Mackenzie In-Reply-To: (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Sat, 20 May 2006 13:15:41 +0000 (GMT)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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:54870 Archived-At: Alan Mackenzie writes: > Afternoon, Emacs! > > In Emacs-22.0.50, if you try to load a legacy cua-mode.el (or whatever), > an eval-after-load form tells you to set the CUA option via the menu. > This is useful only to users who have a mouse and like using it. F10 exists, and the menu bar is displayed by default. So the menu is clearly intended to be used by tty users as well. > For the benefit of other users, M-x cua-mode should also be > mentioned. I don't think this should be necessary. If the possibility of using the menu is not apparent enough, we need to think about how to change that, not how to work around it. Maybe the text menubar should display at its furthest right (if there is still room, which should be the case in default modes) (if that binding is active at the point of time)? -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum