Re: commands invoked by the mouse -> commands invoked from the menu bar

[Luc Teirlinck]

Lennart Borgman wrote:

   > If somebody invokes the menu bar from the keyboard, with the regular
   > mouse based menu bar interface available, then it would seem to me
   > that this user clearly indicates that he does not want to have
   > anything to do with a mouse, through preference or necessity.  If he
   > dislikes "classical" menu bars, how likely is he to like File
   > Selection dialogs?
   >   

   I am not sure what you mean here Luc.

I was under the impression that using File Dialog boxes without the
mouse was inconvenient.  But I do not use File Dialog boxes often, so
maybe it is not that inconvenient once you are used to it.  In that
case, this particular argument would not make a lot of sense.

But there is another argument.

The rule that if you invoke something with the mouse, you get a file
dialog box and if you invoke something with the keyboard, you get to
use the minibuffer is easy to understand and remember and you can
override at least part of that using the options use-dialog-box and
use-file-dialog.  The alternative would be somewhat more complex to
document and remember.  If you invoke the menu from the keyboard, you
get the minibuffer in `emacs -nw' and a file dialog otherwise.

To me, this is no big deal however.

Sincerely,

Luc.