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.
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next prev parent 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
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