all messages for Emacs-related lists mirrored at yhetil.org
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
From: Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Any infrastructure to select one of a few options in Emacs core?
Date: Sat, 14 May 2016 06:20:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86lh3d5kys.fsf@student.uu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87wpn3axix.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com

"Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com>
writes:

> (let ((options '("spam" "ham" "eggs")))
> (x-popup-menu (let ((mp (mouse-position))) (list
> (list (cadr mp) (cddr mp)) (selected-window)))
> (list "menu" (cons "What would yuo like to eat?"
> (mapcar (lambda (option) (cons option option))
> options)))))

Cute, but is there any reason not to use the ordinary
minibuffer/echo area area for this as for everything
else? The whole thing with Emacs, or at least part of
the whole thing, is to have a uniform interface.

-- 
underground experts united .... http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573
Emacs Gnus Blogomatic ......... http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/blogomatic
                   - so far: 29 Blogomatic articles -                   




  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-14  4:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-09 10:09 Any infrastructure to select one of a few options in Emacs core? Marcin Borkowski
2016-05-09 14:13 ` Drew Adams
2016-05-09 15:40   ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-05-09 16:37     ` Kaushal Modi
2016-05-09 17:10       ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-05-09 17:27         ` Drew Adams
2016-05-09 18:08           ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-05-09 18:16             ` Drew Adams
2016-05-19 20:06               ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-05-20  1:16                 ` John Mastro
2016-05-20 23:52                   ` John Mastro
2016-05-21 20:48                     ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-05-09 18:36             ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2016-05-14  4:20               ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2016-05-21 20:49               ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-05-14  4:18 ` Emanuel Berg
2016-05-21 20:52   ` Marcin Borkowski
     [not found]   ` <mailman.43.1463863961.1216.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-05-22  6:32     ` Emanuel Berg

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=86lh3d5kys.fsf@student.uu.se \
    --to=embe8573@student.uu.se \
    --cc=help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index

	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git

This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.