Re: emacs for everything?

[Kai Grossjohann <kai@emptydomain.de>]

floyd@barrow.com (Floyd L. Davidson) writes:

> Kai Grossjohann <kai@emptydomain.de> wrote:
>
>>The Windows-style Start menu navigation is also quite nice: P selects
>>the only item starting with P.  If there is more than one item
>>starting with P, then P moves to the first one, and you can hit P
>>again to move to the next one.  Then RET selects it.
>
> That is a very fundamental difference in what we do with window
> managers.  I start virtually *no* applications from a window manager,
> either by menu or with icons.  I work in many different directories,
> and anything started by the window manager thinks it is in the
> home directory.  So I start almost everything from a command line.
> The exceptions are tools that are not tied to any given working
> directory (xmag, a couple local database programs, xcalc, my clock,
> stuff like that).

There's a misunderstanding, here.  I was only referring to the way how
you can select items from the Windows Start menu using the keyboard.

I didn't mean that the Window Start menu, per se, is useful.

But the menu navigation could be used for any menu, such as for the
list of windows, or for the window operations (you know, iconify,
maximize, resize, ...), or you name it.


Please note that the Windows Start menu navigation is different from
the way other Windows menus are navigated.  In the other menus, each
item has an underlined character which serves as the accelerator.  But
the Windows Start menu provides for two items having the same
accelerator, and it does not require explicit specification of the
accelerator (it's always the first character).

>>There is a feature sometimes called "window tabs", or "piles".[...]
>
> Wow, that looks very useful.

Perhaps fvwm has a module for this?

... surfs fvwm.org ...

No, I couldn't find anything.  Hm.  But I think I heard something
about it.  Hm.

Kai