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Re: Design Suggestion 2: Dired In The Drop Down Menus
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David Masterson |
Subject: |
Re: Design Suggestion 2: Dired In The Drop Down Menus |
Date: |
24 Sep 2001 09:08:07 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 |
>>>>> "Kai" == Kai Großjohann <Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE> writes:
> dmaster@synopsys.com (David Masterson) writes:
>> Better yet. Could button1 (or 2 or 3) _in_ _the_ _minibuffer_ be
>> assigned to newline so that, after doing "File|Open" (or most any menu
>> command), with a simple click, you could say "execute the command with
>> the default value"?
> I guess that a large fraction of the newbies would start out with the
> menus, rather than the keyboard. And newbies are not going to know
> that clicking in a special area on the screen will do something like
> this. Especially since the menu bar is way up in the window and the
> minibuffer is way down.
True. Sounds like a documentation issue. What if the modeline
changed to say "Click below to accept default" when find-file or dired
asks for a pathname? Or maybe the minibuffer could momentarily change
to 2 (or more) lines so that there is room for an extra message?
Of course, if you can use a mouse, I guess the best thing would be to
have a popup.
--
David Masterson dmaster AT synopsys DOT com
Sr. R&D Engineer Synopsys, Inc.
Software Engineering Sunnyvale, CA
- Re: Design Suggestion 2: Dired In The Drop Down Menus (Re: Emacs Developers: Make a GREAT editor Even Better, Stefan Monnier, 2001/09/19
- Re: Design Suggestion 2: Dired In The Drop Down Menus (Re: Emacs Developers: Make a GREAT editor Even Better, David Masterson, 2001/09/20
- Re: Design Suggestion 2: Dired In The Drop Down Menus (Re: Emacs Developers: Make a GREAT editor Even Better, Karl Eichwalder, 2001/09/21
- Re: Design Suggestion 2: Dired In The Drop Down Menus (Re: Emacs Developers: Make a GREAT editor Even Better, Kai Großjohann, 2001/09/21
- Re: Design Suggestion 2: Dired In The Drop Down Menus (Re: Emacs Developers: Make a GREAT editor Even Better, David Masterson, 2001/09/21
- Re: Design Suggestion 2: Dired In The Drop Down Menus (Re: Emacs Developers: Make a GREAT editor Even Better, Kai Großjohann, 2001/09/21
- Re: Design Suggestion 2: Dired In The Drop Down Menus (Re: Emacs Developers: Make a GREAT editor Even Better, David Masterson, 2001/09/24
- Re: Design Suggestion 2: Dired In The Drop Down Menus (Re: Emacs Developers: Make a GREAT editor Even Better, Richard Stallman, 2001/09/24
- Re: Design Suggestion 2: Dired In The Drop Down Menus, David Masterson, 2001/09/25
- Re: Design Suggestion 2: Dired In The Drop Down Menus (Re: Emacs Developers: Make a GREAT editor Even Better, Kai Großjohann, 2001/09/21
- Re: Design Suggestion 2: Dired In The Drop Down Menus,
David Masterson <=
- Re: Design Suggestion 2: Dired In The Drop Down Menus, Kevin Rodgers, 2001/09/24