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Re: How can I reorder the items of the menubar?
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Keira |
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Re: How can I reorder the items of the menubar? |
Date: |
18 Sep 2002 23:49:44 -0700 |
lawrence mitchell <wence@gmx.li> wrote in message
news:<ould6rbp8n1.fsf@ID-97657.usr.dfncis.de>...
Thank you for your help.
[snip]
> Basically, though, the procedure is as follows:
> i) get the Emacs-21 sources --- available from all gnu.org
> mirrors.
> ii) Unpack them, and read the installation instructions.
> iii) Find the file menu-bar.el (probably in the lisp/
> subdirectory of the Emacs source).
I can't compile Emacs my self (no room in $HOME), and root will not do
it.
> iv) Redefine the order in which the menu-bar is constructed.
> (look for lines of the form
> `(cons "Tools" menu-bar-tools-menu)' --- for (e.g.) the Tools
> menu.)
> Menu bars are "pushed" onto a menu-bar stack, hence, if you
> want a menu to appear last, you should move its definition
> towards the top of the file and vice versa.
Could I (in $HOME/.emacs) remove the whole menu definition (basicly
unload the default lisp/menu-bar.el) and then load a new menu-bar.el,
maybe even the one from Emacs 20? If yes, how would I do this?
> v) After you've changed menu-bar.el to your satisfaction, save
> it.
> vi) Follow the installation instructions to compile and install
> Emacs for your system.
>
> Alternately stay with Emacs 20 (unless you have any dying need to
> use Emacs 21). ;)
Emacs 20, I regrete, is nolonger available on the system.
Gideon