From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
Cc: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Menubar on text only terminals
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 09:47:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86648fcj5y.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070402073727.GA5284@kobe.laptop> (Giorgos Keramidas's message of "Mon\, 2 Apr 2007 10\:37\:28 +0300")
Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> writes:
> On 2007-04-02 09:25, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> I think that the MSDOS port has a more traditional text menu (which
>> closely resembles the graphical menus by appearing in-place).
>>
>> It would probably be better to port that functionality to text
>> terminals in general before thinking about what to do with
>> toolbars: I don't think that many people consider tmm a good idea.
>> And it certainly is a good hint that for MSDOS, one of the few
>> console-only parts, someone went to the pain to implement something
>> else.
>
> Right. This 'in place' appearance of menu entries is what elinks
> does, and what I was referring to above :)
My fault for not reading carefully: I thought this was still about
toolbars. Hm, looking at the subject line, it might have never been
about toolbars in the first place.
--
David Kastrup
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-02 7:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-31 7:12 Menubar on text only terminals Nick Roberts
2007-03-31 20:42 ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-31 21:36 ` Nick Roberts
2007-04-02 2:13 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2007-04-02 4:56 ` Nick Roberts
2007-04-02 6:55 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2007-04-02 7:25 ` David Kastrup
2007-04-02 7:37 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2007-04-02 7:47 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2007-04-02 12:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-04-02 23:28 ` Nick Roberts
2007-04-03 6:50 ` David Kastrup
2007-04-03 8:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
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