From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [RFA] Console based mouse face highlighting. Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 06:24:07 +0300 Message-ID: References: <17989.37070.393150.565546@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <17993.11948.400368.430713@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <17994.14013.614407.875104@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <17994.32856.216525.50726@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <17994.54868.931947.611990@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <17995.31640.399794.621018@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <17995.53754.860573.633945@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <17996.55425.495501.592760@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <17998.5626.348375.91578@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <17998.45589.625578.730270@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <17999.58366.589991.627229@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <18000.6674.499048.55929@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <18018.5493.604774.246401@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <18019.20322.933144.577539@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1180927454 3148 80.91.229.12 (4 Jun 2007 03:24:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 03:24:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Nick Roberts Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 04 05:24:12 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Hv3Ay-0003rI-JG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Jun 2007 05:24:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hv3Ay-0002DP-2o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 23:24:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hv3Au-0002DA-O3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 23:24:08 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hv3At-0002Cy-Py for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 23:24:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hv3At-0002Cv-Js for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 23:24:07 -0400 Original-Received: from nitzan.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.22]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hv3As-0007E8-GN; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 23:24:06 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-84-229-203-53.inter.net.il [84.229.203.53]) by nitzan.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3a-GA) with ESMTP id GWS12082 (AUTH halo1); Mon, 4 Jun 2007 06:24:07 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <18019.20322.933144.577539@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> (message from Nick Roberts on Mon, 4 Jun 2007 11:31:46 +1200) X-detected-kernel: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (2) 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: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:72182 Archived-At: > From: Nick Roberts > Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 11:31:46 +1200 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se > > > The menubar still doesn't work. I hope that we can get rid of tmm.el in > > Emacs 23 and make menus work along the lines that David Kastrup and Eli > > Zaretskii suggested. > > > > Can you resend me that suggestion? I don't recall what they proposed. > > My understanding was that it should work like a DOS application (!), where the > menu appears as in-situ text overlaying existing text. To see how this works > on GNU/Linux, run midnight commander or aptitude from the console. for example. More accurate, my suggestion was to do something similar to the MSDOS port of Emacs. Most of the code can be lifted from msdos.c.