Re: Navigating menus with the arrow keys?

[Pavel Janík]

   From: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/address@hidden>
   Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2001 15:04:17 -0500

   > > Yes, but Emacs sees keyboard events - try selecting some menu item
   > > (e.g. File), and then M-x view-hello-file...
   > 
   > I'm not sure what you mean here.  What exactly should I do and
   > what will happen ?

The deck will be popped-up, you can walk with mouse over it, after keyboard
events generated by M-x view-hello-file, the HELLO file is actually opened
but the display is not refreshed, so you can not see its contents. So Emacs
really seems (and interprets) key-presses even when menu is displayed...

   > That's pretty much unavoidable: those menus are X windows but aren't
   > managed by your window manager.  The only way to prevent this behavior
   > seems to be to grab the server, which is *bad* (I'm sure you know what
   > I mean if you've already experienced Netscape locking up your whole
   > screen).

Yes, I know that.
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Pavel Janík

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