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bug#52973: Adding a few context-menu-mode commands
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#52973: Adding a few context-menu-mode commands |
Date: |
Sat, 08 Jan 2022 22:09:44 +0200 |
> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
> Cc: juri@linkov.net, larsi@gnus.org, 52973@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2022 19:39:41 +0000
>
> >> No, the Man functions can be used anywhere you want to read a man page.
> >> It checks if the user clicked on something like "emacs(1)", then inserts
> >> a entry into the context menu to open the man page at point.
> >
> > So it will suggest to show a man page when text like this one from the
> > ELisp manual is displayed:
> >
> > To conserve memory, Emacs does not hold fixed-length 22-bit numbers
> > that are codepoints of text characters within buffers and strings.
> > Rather, Emacs uses a variable-length internal representation of
> > characters, that stores each character as a sequence of 1 to 5 8-bit
> > bytes, depending on the magnitude of its codepoint(1).
> >
> > When the user displays a man page, the probability that "foo(1)"
> > references a man page is very high.
>
> Yes, but in that case Man-mode should have already inserted a link that
> you can just click on, without the need for a context-menu.
So let me step back a notch and ask: how else can we cause the context
menus to be automatically populated in a given buffer, once
context-menu-mode is turned on? It must be some buffer-local feature,
because different buffers should in principle show different context
menus. That's why I thought about modes -- those are always
buffer-local, and mode initialization code runs in every buffer where
the mode is turned on, so we have a place to produce the context
menus.
If you want to have context menus populated regardless of the modes,
what other buffer-specific mechanism can we employ? IOW, what would
be the trigger for populating the context menus? It cannot be the
user, because that makes no sense to me: the user already told us
he/she wants those menus when he/she turned on the context-menu-mode.
- bug#52973: Adding a few context-menu-mode commands, (continued)
- bug#52973: Adding a few context-menu-mode commands, Philip Kaludercic, 2022/01/07
- bug#52973: Adding a few context-menu-mode commands, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/01/07
- bug#52973: Adding a few context-menu-mode commands, Juri Linkov, 2022/01/08
- bug#52973: Adding a few context-menu-mode commands, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/01/08
- bug#52973: Adding a few context-menu-mode commands, Philip Kaludercic, 2022/01/08
- bug#52973: Adding a few context-menu-mode commands, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/01/08
- bug#52973: Adding a few context-menu-mode commands, Philip Kaludercic, 2022/01/08
- bug#52973: Adding a few context-menu-mode commands,
Eli Zaretskii <=
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- bug#52973: Adding a few context-menu-mode commands, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/01/12
- bug#52973: Adding a few context-menu-mode commands, Juri Linkov, 2022/01/12
- bug#52973: Adding a few context-menu-mode commands, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/01/12
- bug#52973: Adding a few context-menu-mode commands, Juri Linkov, 2022/01/12
- bug#52973: Adding a few context-menu-mode commands, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/01/12
- bug#52973: Adding a few context-menu-mode commands, Juri Linkov, 2022/01/12
- bug#52973: Adding a few context-menu-mode commands, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/01/12
- bug#52973: Adding a few context-menu-mode commands, Juri Linkov, 2022/01/12
- bug#52973: Adding a few context-menu-mode commands, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/01/12