Re: Drop-down menus, popup menus, and popup dialogs supported on TTYs

[Gregor Zattler]

Hi Eli, emacs developers,
* Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> [10. Oct. 2013]:
>> latest Emacs assumes TERM to be "dumb" if startet in a terminal
>> like this:
>> 
>> src/Emacs -Q -nw --debug-init
>> 
>> (getenv "TERM") then returns "dumb".  Is this a bug?
> 
> I don't know.  Why do you think it's a bug?

Because the environment of this process has
TERM=screen-256c-bce-s and (getenv "TERM") is supposed to return
the value of this environment variable.  It's the terminal where
emacs was started.  It has much richer functionality than a dumb
terminal.  And although the TERM variable is set to "dumb" emacs
uses the features of the terminal quite fine e.g. with respect to
colours.

>> And finally: I did not find a way from the sub menu back to the
>> main menu besides hitting arrow right (which goes to the next
>> main menu) and then arrow left.  Perhaps some lynx stype
>> navigation would improve this?
> 
> Not easy to do.  Patches are welcome.

That's way beyond my capabilities.

Ciao, Gregor
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