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Re: Drop-down menus, popup menus, and popup dialogs supported on TTYs
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: Drop-down menus, popup menus, and popup dialogs supported on TTYs |
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Thu, 10 Oct 2013 05:49:58 +0300 |
> Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2013 23:26:22 +0200
> From: Gregor Zattler <address@hidden>
>
> 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?
> It's really nice! One remark I have is that hitting F10 should
> IMHO close the menu if no menu entry was selected up to this
> point. Instead one has to hit ESC (which is also fine but should
> not be the only way of leaving the menu).
You can also leave the menu by C-g or ESC ESC ESC.
> Another remark: The headings of the menus end in ">". First I
> thought this indicates that arrow right goes to the next menu, but
> there are no "<" signs. On the other hand menu entries which
> lead to sub menus also end in a ">" while here one has to hit
> "RETURN" in order to go to the sub menu. This is a bit
> confusing. Perhaps arrow right should also lead to the submenu?
The ">" is a sign of a submenu. It appears in the first line because
that is the header, and the entire menu is a "submenu" of that.
> 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.
> I also tested it on the console. Works the same.
>
> Thank you very much, Gregor
Thanks for testing.
- Drop-down menus, popup menus, and popup dialogs supported on TTYs, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/10/08
- Re: Drop-down menus, popup menus, and popup dialogs supported on TTYs, chad, 2013/10/08
- Re: Drop-down menus, popup menus, and popup dialogs supported on TTYs, Masatake YAMATO, 2013/10/09
- Re: Drop-down menus, popup menus, and popup dialogs supported on TTYs, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/10/09
- Re: Drop-down menus, popup menus, and popup dialogs supported on TTYs, Dani Moncayo, 2013/10/09
- Re: Drop-down menus, popup menus, and popup dialogs supported on TTYs, David De La Harpe Golden, 2013/10/09
- Re: Drop-down menus, popup menus, and popup dialogs supported on TTYs, Gregor Zattler, 2013/10/09
- Re: Drop-down menus, popup menus, and popup dialogs supported on TTYs, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/10/09
- Re: Drop-down menus, popup menus, and popup dialogs supported on TTYs, Gregor Zattler, 2013/10/09
- Re: Drop-down menus, popup menus, and popup dialogs supported on TTYs,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Drop-down menus, popup menus, and popup dialogs supported on TTYs, Gregor Zattler, 2013/10/10
- Re: Drop-down menus, popup menus, and popup dialogs supported on TTYs, Andreas Schwab, 2013/10/10
- Re: Drop-down menus, popup menus, and popup dialogs supported on TTYs, Stefan Monnier, 2013/10/09
- Re: Drop-down menus, popup menus, and popup dialogs supported on TTYs, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/10/09
- Re: Drop-down menus, popup menus, and popup dialogs supported on TTYs, Dani Moncayo, 2013/10/11
- Re: Drop-down menus, popup menus, and popup dialogs supported on TTYs, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/10/11
- Re: Drop-down menus, popup menus, and popup dialogs supported on TTYs, Dani Moncayo, 2013/10/11
- Re: Drop-down menus, popup menus, and popup dialogs supported on TTYs, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/10/11
- Re: Drop-down menus, popup menus, and popup dialogs supported on TTYs, Dani Moncayo, 2013/10/11
- Re: Drop-down menus, popup menus, and popup dialogs supported on TTYs, Masatake YAMATO, 2013/10/11