From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Jan D." Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: GTK emacs (and access to GTK) Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 10:13:23 +0100 Message-ID: <9CB37060-2D78-11D9-8E90-000D93505B76@swipnet.se> References: <87smal64nc.fsf@orebokech.com> <87wtx45rag.fsf_-_@tapsellferrier.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1099474075 26108 80.91.229.6 (3 Nov 2004 09:27:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 09:27:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 03 10:27:46 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CPHQf-0003eA-00 for ; Wed, 03 Nov 2004 10:27:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CPHYj-0001JG-80 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Nov 2004 04:36:05 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CPHLi-0006EG-5Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Nov 2004 04:22:38 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CPHLg-0006Dm-TQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Nov 2004 04:22:37 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CPHLg-0006DZ-OG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Nov 2004 04:22:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.54.107.70] (helo=mxfep01.bredband.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CPHDJ-0001lv-UV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Nov 2004 04:13:58 -0500 Original-Received: from coolsville.localdomain ([83.226.180.220] [83.226.180.220]) by mxfep01.bredband.com with ESMTP id <20041103091355.FMCP4883.mxfep01.bredband.com@coolsville.localdomain>; Wed, 3 Nov 2004 10:13:55 +0100 In-Reply-To: Original-To: Peter Heslin X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:29363 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:29363 > On 2004-11-02, Nic Ferrier wrote: >> The GTK port of Emacs is brilliant. > > Indeed it is. One query: is the lack of support for the GTK > menu-accelerator keystrokes (eg. hitting F10 and navigating the menus > by using the cursor keys) regarded as an outstanding bug to be fixed > for the next release, as a wish-list feature, or as a rejected and > undesirable feature? I, for one, find that the support of XEmacs for > this feature is one of the few places where it has an advantage over > GNU Emacs. The first, i.e. an outstanding bug to be fixed, but it is not critical for the next release. > > It would be nice if it could be fixed for the next release, but it may > be a non-trivial task. I once looked at the code, and saw that this > GTK feature was explicitly disabled by Emacs. I tried enabling it, > and saw that there were weird side-effects in which point moved in the > buffer in addition to the menu navigation, and so I gave up > investigating it. That sums up the work to be done quite nicely :-) Jan D.