Re: Put hide-ifdef on menu-bar?

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Nick Roberts <address@hidden> writes:

  >  > Now in the case of hide-ifdef, it would be good if there was a menu
  >  > entry in the cc-mode menu to turn on this mode. That would make this
  >  > feature more discoverable for potential users.
  > 
  > I agree.  On emacs-pretest-bug (Tue, 27 Feb 2007) I previously said:
  > 
  > 
  > |  Subject: Move hide-ifdef-mode toggle button
  > 
  > |  I'm not likely to want to toggle hide-ifdef-mode when browsing info, so
  > |  how about moving it off the list in the pop up menu on the mode line?
  >                                           [minor mode list]
  > |  Although it's not part of cc-mode it could be moved to the Toggle...
  > |  menu-item on the C menu.
  > 
  > but got no reply.  

Hmm, maybe post this again and if there are not objections check it in.

  > Is hide-ifdef useful for other languages?

It should be useful to all languages that use the C preprocessor: asm
and I think also Fortran.