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Re: C-l while in menu?
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: C-l while in menu? |
Date: |
Tue, 23 Apr 2002 14:08:54 +0300 (IDT) |
On 23 Apr 2002, Miles Bader wrote:
> Ben Wing <address@hidden> writes:
> > the fact is that things work quite well when you have only a meta key.
> > e.g. meta+letter is an accelerator only when such a menu exists;
> > otherwise, you get the regular binding -- and even then you can
> > retrieve the shadowed binding with shift+meta+letter.
>
> Do people really like this?
I don't. One ``feature'' that particularly annoys me is that, as Ben
described, pressing Alt alone and then releasing it activates the menu
bar. So if I press Alt and then change my mind, I need to remember to
type ESC or something similar before I can type text again. That's a
real dumper on fast typing.
> It sounds astonishly annoying to have
> random meta keys stolen by the menus, especially since emacs has many
> useful and common commands on M-letter keys. E.g., doesn't the `File'
> menu steal `M-f', the `Buffers' menu `M-b', etc.?
I think such a mode is inappropriate for Emacs because our menu bar can
change dynamically as a function of what you type. So in Emacs, what
keys will be stolen is not entirely predictable, which makes this even a
worse idea, IMHO.
I'd suggest to find a modifier other than Meta, and use that instead.
Something like Super or Hyper, for example; we support them on Windows as
well. For tty's, we could have some prefix key instead.
- Re: C-l while in menu?, (continued)
- Re: C-l while in menu?, Richard Stallman, 2002/04/22
- Re: C-l while in menu?, Stefan Monnier, 2002/04/22
- Re: C-l while in menu?, Ben Wing, 2002/04/22
- Re: C-l while in menu?, Pavel Janík, 2002/04/22
- Re: C-l while in menu?, Ben Wing, 2002/04/23
- Re: C-l while in menu?, Miles Bader, 2002/04/23
- Re: C-l while in menu?,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: C-l while in menu?, Gerd Moellmann, 2002/04/23
- Re: C-l while in menu?, Eli Zaretskii, 2002/04/23
- Re: C-l while in menu?, Simon Josefsson, 2002/04/23
- Re: C-l while in menu?, Richard Stallman, 2002/04/24
- Re: C-l while in menu?, Simon Josefsson, 2002/04/24
- Re: C-l while in menu?, Richard Stallman, 2002/04/25
- Re: C-l while in menu?, Gerd Moellmann, 2002/04/24
- Re: C-l while in menu?, Richard Stallman, 2002/04/25
- Re: C-l while in menu?, Ben Wing, 2002/04/24
- Re: C-l while in menu?, Simon Josefsson, 2002/04/24