Re: C-l while in menu?

[Ben Wing]

Pavel Janík wrote:

>   From: Ben Wing <address@hidden>
>   Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 06:04:52 -0700
>
> Ben, Stefan,
>
>   > >>    I think it is very easy. We should use F10, and invent new variable
>   > >>    f10-should-use-tmm (this is only idea to exactly describe its 
> meaning...)
>   > >>    defaulting to nil.
>
> [...]
>
>   > -- if you have an alt key separate from meta, you can use it for menu
>   > accelerators.
>
> I was not talking about accelerators. I know how to use them in XEmacs.
But the person I was responding to thought that you need an alt key 
separate from meta -- as you imply by where you cut my response.  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.  are you sure you knew about 
all that?

in any case, under Windows the standard behavior of pressing and 
releasing the Alt key [i.e. meta] without hitting any other key 
traverses to the menu, although there's a var to turn it off.  there is 
a command, lucid-menus-only, misleadingly called (not my creation) 
'accelerate-menu' that traverses to the menu, but there doesn't seem to 
be a standard binding.

f10 is the obvious binding, to be Motif/Windows compatible.
shift-f10 would bring up a popup menu, equivalent to clicking the right 
mouse button.



> But
> I do not know if there is a key binding to pop-up the first menu in the
> menubar. We would like Emacs to be compatible if XEmacs if it has that
> feature. I do not use XEmacs so I'm asking: does XEmacs have that feature?
> If so, what is the keybinding?
>
> As Eli said: keyboard controlling menu is useless if you do not have a way
> to enter menubar. Accelerators is one way, but I'm looking for the second
> one right now.
>
> [...]
>
> Due to this misunderstanding I ignored the rest of your e-mail.