Re: [h-e-w] easymenu question (fwd)

Re: [h-e-w] easymenu question (fwd)

[Morgan V. Cundiff]

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Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 18:35:55 +0200
From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Morgan V. Cundiff <mcundiff@loc.gov>
Subject: Re: [h-e-w] easymenu question

This is not specific to MS Windows, please send it to help-gnu-emacs.


On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 6:14 PM, Morgan V. Cundiff <mcundiff@loc.gov> wrote:
>
> I am using easymenu.el to create major-mode-specific menus. The following
> code in my .emacs does create the desired "XQuery" menu. However, it
> positions the XQuery menu as the first (i.e. left-most) menu. I would like
> to be able to position it as the right-most, or, better yet, to place it
> in any arbitrary position relative to the other menus. Can anyone help?
>
>   (easy-menu-define my-menu global-map "XQUERY"
>                      '("XQuery" :visible (string= major-mode
> "xquery-mode")
>                        ["xquery decl" insert-decl t]
>                        ("Sub Menu"
>                         ["My subentry" my-obscure-function t])))
>
> Thanks,
> Morgan
>
>
>

Re: [h-e-w] easymenu question (fwd)

[Stefan Monnier]

>> I am using easymenu.el to create major-mode-specific menus. The following
>> code in my .emacs does create the desired "XQuery" menu. However, it
>> positions the XQuery menu as the first (i.e. left-most) menu. I would like
>> to be able to position it as the right-most, or, better yet, to place it
>> in any arbitrary position relative to the other menus. Can anyone help?
>> 
>>   (easy-menu-define my-menu global-map "XQUERY"

The above line places the menu in the global-map.  I.e. it will appear
in every buffer, no matter which major mode it is in (so if you want it
to be major-mode-specific, it's probably not the right thing to do).

The place where it appears is partly controllable, but not completely:
it largely depends on whether it comes from global-map, from the
major-mode map, or from a minor-mode map.  Within those strong
constraints you can influence the position by controlling where in the
global-map, major-mode map, or minor-mode map they appear (typically
via the use of define-key-after or easy-menu-add-item), as well as via
menu-bar-final-items.


        Stefan