Re: [h-e-w] How to use the menubar with keyboard?

[Jeff Rancier]

I have (thanks to someone on the list) the following function defined:

(defun jbr-w32-simulate-Alt-tap ()
  (interactive)
  (w32-send-sys-command 61696))

which I have bound to

(global-set-key   [C-tab]           'jbr-w32-simulate-Alt-tap)

Then I hit Ctrl-tab, the Buffers menu button depresses.  At that time I can
just hit any of the first letters of any other menu items, and then expand
if there's only one with that letter, or they toggle between multiple ones.

Jeff


----- Original Message -----
From: "Tuomas Salo" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 12:00 PM
Subject: [h-e-w] How to use the menubar with keyboard?


|
| Hello,
|
| I'm trying to make the Emacs menu bar usable with the keyboard, as in any
| other Windows program. I've already added '(setq w32-pass-alt-to-system
| t)' to my .emacs file so that I can press alt key once (down+up), which
| activates the "File" menu. However, there are no underlines in any menu
| entry.
|
| So, my question is: is there a way to make the menubar act like in a
| standard Windows program, with underlined shortcut characters?
|
| I'm surprised I couldn't find anything on this in the FAQ. I also tried to
| STFW, but found very little. Maybe I'm missing something here...?
|
| (I'm using W2k with Emacs 21.1 installed from
| ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/windows/emacs/21.1/emacs-21.1-fullbin-i386.tar.gz.)
|
|
| Thanks for any help,
|
|
| Tuomas
|
|
| PS. I'm aware that now (with the File menu item activated) I can push 'E'
| to open the Edit menu and so on, but when there are many menu items like
| 'Open File...'and 'Open Directory...' in the same menu, pressing 'O'
| sucks. Also, I'm not able to push Alt-F to directly open to the file menu.
|
|
|