From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [External] : Re: finding stuff Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2021 15:59:35 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87a6szjc81.fsf@logand.com> <838s8h2bm7.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="25443"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:fauAVSSvBMBrpRNbfoAUO86v87M= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 25 22:00:17 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1l48y8-0006WB-0O for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 25 Jan 2021 22:00:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35954 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l48y7-00030K-2U for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 25 Jan 2021 16:00:15 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38198) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l48xc-0002ov-Hd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jan 2021 15:59:44 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:34544) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l48xb-0006Rh-4l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jan 2021 15:59:44 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1l48xZ-0005sO-5y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jan 2021 21:59:41 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:127361 Archived-At: > I don't use them myself, not because of a fear of being I rarely use them as well, but I do find them handy every once in a while. > labeled, and certainly not because I already know everything > (I prove daily that I'm forever learning). I don't use menus > because for me they get in the way by taking up screen space, I use (menu-bar-mode -1) to solve this problem. It's still available on `C-mouse-3` so nothing's lost. > being distracting, and generally requiring reaching for the > mouse. But my use case is not necessarily anyone else's. Since I use them rarely, I usually don't mind using the mouse in those rare cases. But there's probably some way to make it pop up in response to a keyboard event (and you can definitely navigate it with the mouse). Stefan