Re: F10 → menu

[john@ankarstrom.se (John Ankarström)]

Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@gmail.com> writes:

>> I found a similar setting today:
>> 
>> (define-key global-map (kbd "C-<f2>")
>>  (lambda ()
>>    (interactive)
>>    (x-popup-menu (list '(0 0) (selected-frame))
>>                  (mouse-menu-bar-map))))
>
> Weird, none of the menu item trigger anything regardless of whether I use only
> the keyboard or if I use the mouse.
> Only calling the items from the real menus does trigger something...

I looked at the documentation for `x-popup-menu':

> Pop up a deck-of-cards menu and return user’s selection.

<C-f2>, as defined above, would only return the user's selection
without executing it. For example, when selecting Help > Emacs
Tutorial, the following is returned:

> (help-menu emacs-tutorial)

I'm not sure on how you'd go about executing that, but I'm sure
there's a way.

- John