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Re: Text mode menu wishlist
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Alex Schroeder |
Subject: |
Re: Text mode menu wishlist |
Date: |
Tue, 10 Sep 2002 20:15:08 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2.90 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) |
Sacha Chua <address@hidden> writes:
>> People like me would like a simple buffer where we can use up and down
>> and RET to select a menu entry. This can be done in Lisp and works
>> for me.
>
> tmm does that, doesn't it? Or, well, it uses the history mechanism,
> and you can pageup to get to the completion buffer...
I dunno wether it does. I just tried it and indeed it seems to go
"up" in the menu. But I find it confusing. It was so confusing, in
fact, that I understood it only after you told me. :) Part of this
problem is perhaps the multi-column display, and the lack of a
"selection" in the buffer. All the activity is in the minibuffer.
>> Other people would like to see "real" menus in the console, but that
>> requires messing with the C code. The basic stuff is already there in
>
> I can start studying ncurses and the Emacs C code if people feel
> that this is important enough. =)
I think Mario Lang already has a bunch of mails talking about the
basics of this. Perhaps he can give you some more information.
> What would an ideal buffer-based menu be for you? Simple buffer, up
> and down and ret, ability to go up to the parent menu
Yes
> tab
Hm, how would that work, as "next"? I would not care about that (but
I would expect there to be a textmenu-mode-map I could change).
> mouse clicks
Not really -- if I expected that, I could have used the real menu.
Alex.
- Text mode menu wishlist, Sacha Chua, 2002/09/09
- Re: Text mode menu wishlist, Alex Schroeder, 2002/09/09
- Re: Text mode menu wishlist, Sacha Chua, 2002/09/09
- Re: Text mode menu wishlist, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2002/09/10
- Re: Text mode menu wishlist, Miles Bader, 2002/09/10
- (no subject), Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2002/09/10
- Re: none, Miles Bader, 2002/09/10
- Re: none, Sacha Chua, 2002/09/10
- Re: none, Miles Bader, 2002/09/10
- Re: none, Sacha Chua, 2002/09/30
- Re: Text mode menu wishlist,
Alex Schroeder <=
Re: Text mode menu wishlist, Richard Stallman, 2002/09/09