From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Input for TTY menus Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 09:40:34 -0400 Message-ID: References: <831u4llymo.fsf@gnu.org> <83r4bjoq33.fsf@gnu.org> <83bo2nnkel.fsf@gnu.org> <5F73A0A0-033A-40C2-8B15-AF5AFCBB944B@mit.edu> <83li1qmoog.fsf@gnu.org> <83fvrxn26f.fsf@gnu.org> <8338nxmw8p.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1382190062 25942 80.91.229.3 (19 Oct 2013 13:41:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 13:41:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: yandros@mit.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org, darren.hoo@gmail.com To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 19 15:41:05 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VXWm8-0002qW-3c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Oct 2013 15:41:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33364 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VXWm7-00037w-Jr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Oct 2013 09:41:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49335) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VXWlx-00037p-5g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Oct 2013 09:41:00 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VXWlp-0005Lw-Me for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Oct 2013 09:40:52 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:29587) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VXWlg-0005Eh-Mc; Sat, 19 Oct 2013 09:40:36 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av4EABK/CFFFxKEz/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLNBIUGA0kiB4GwS2RCgOkeoFegxM X-IPAS-Result: Av4EABK/CFFFxKEz/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLNBIUGA0kiB4GwS2RCgOkeoFegxM X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="35874147" Original-Received: from 69-196-161-51.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.196.161.51]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 19 Oct 2013 09:40:35 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id F2479616AE; Sat, 19 Oct 2013 09:40:34 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <8338nxmw8p.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 19 Oct 2013 12:43:34 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.182 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:164357 Archived-At: > The problem with this is that this change arbitrarily switches to the > next menu-bar menu, which means that if you use C-b or left-arrow to > move backwards through the menu-bar items, you will be "stuck" when > you get to the empty menu item. IOW, you can only move past such an > empty menu while moving forward (C-f or right-arrow). It's better, but still not really satisfactory. > However, if this is deemed "good enough", I will install it. How 'bout we fall back on a default "empty menu", instead? > Btw, what does the non-toolkit menu do with this situation on X, when > triggered by F10? Doesn't it behave the same? It might do the exact same thing, indeed, but the tty menus are much more often used with f10 than the non-toolkit menu which is more often used with the mouse (where this problem is not very significant). Stefan