Re: [Texmacs-dev] A small remark on tables in menus

[Joris van der Hoeven]

> > This has already played me a trick: i know i saw it in the 'Insert'
> > menu, i look for if for a minute, and then i realize i have to switch to
> > math mode.
> 
> I argued a lot here with Joris about how menus should behave. Your
> post is another example of how using "if menus" (which may be hidden),
> instead of "when menus" (which may be dimmed), for submenus is bad.
> 
> I know think that we should use "if menus" for top level menus, but
> only for those. That helps manage the scare menubar real-estate and do
> provide immediate visual feedback to the user when something change.
> 
> But Joris seems to keep on disagreeing.

Yes, because there will be more and more specialized applications
of TeXmacs in the future; we can't have dimmed menus for everything.
The user should not be burdened with too much information.
In some cases, a good profile in the preferences may help though.

> Since your desired "text-choice" macro would have different syntactic
> usage than the existing "choice" macro (table cells would be in text
> mode), regardless of semanting differences, I think there may be point
> in creating a new macro.

Agreed.

> So, I think the best way to fix your problem here would be using a
> user-specific package file and some user-defined menus and key
> bindings. Please ask for help if you cannot work it out with the
> existing documentation.

Absolutely.