Re: Creating a menu/pop-up?

[sandipchitale@yahoo.com (Sandip Chitale)]

Mike Ballard <dont_w@nt_spam.org> wrote in message news:<m2vfupd8d7.fsf@west_f1.net>...
> Hi -
> 
> I use a pkg called steno (sort of an expandable to-do list, each list
> being a seperate text file).  There doesn't appear to be any support for a
> menu/pop-up.  I'd like to see if I can either add "steno" to the menubar
> or somehow create a pop-up actived by a mouse/ctl key combo with either
> method showing the list of steno files I've created (they're all in one
> dir).  I'd prefer a pop-up using mouse/ctl (listing my steno files).  I
> contacted the author and got no reply.
> 
> I found something called user-menu.el (something like that) but am having
> trouble (I only know the simplest of elisp) and don't really know if it
> will work for what I want anyway.
> 
> A long time ago I figured out how to assign "edit/bookmarks:jump to
> bookmarks" to a mouse/ctl combo but have no idea how now.  But I did look
> in bookmark*el to see if I could figure out what to use there to create
> the steno menu/pop-up I want (the same kind of pop-up I get with
> "jump*book*).  I looked but there's way too much I don't understand.

(global-set-key [C-down-mouse-3]            'bookmark-menu-jump)

> 
> Anyone have an idea or two for an elisp neophyte so that I can create a
> pop-up showing my list of text files such that clicking on one of the
> files runs it under steno?
> 
> Mike