bug#37184: Browser-like Info-history button menu

[Juri Linkov]

Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

Clicking on the history back button with mouse-3 or holding mouse-1
in web browsers displays a menu with a list of previous/next visited pages.

The following patch implements the same in the tool-bar of Info-mode:

diff --git a/lisp/info.el b/lisp/info.el
index 17a2d63e6d..b914e2a813 100644
--- a/lisp/info.el
+++ b/lisp/info.el
@@ -4059,6 +4059,8 @@ Info-mode-map
     (define-key map [follow-link] 'mouse-face)
     (define-key map [XF86Back] 'Info-history-back)
     (define-key map [XF86Forward] 'Info-history-forward)
+    (define-key map [tool-bar C-Back\ in\ history] 'Info-history-back-menu)
+    (define-key map [tool-bar C-Forward\ in\ history] 
'Info-history-forward-menu)
     map)
   "Keymap containing Info commands.")
 
@@ -4151,6 +4153,36 @@ info-tool-bar-map
                                   :vert-only t)
     map))
 
+(defun Info-history-menu (e name history command)
+  (let* ((i (length history))
+         (map (make-sparse-keymap name)))
+    (mapc (lambda (history)
+            (let ((file (nth 0 history))
+                  (node (nth 1 history)))
+              (when (stringp file)
+               (setq file (file-name-sans-extension
+                           (file-name-nondirectory file))))
+              (define-key map (vector (intern (format "history-%i" i)))
+                `(menu-item ,(format "(%s) %s" file node)
+                            (lambda ()
+                              (interactive)
+                              (dotimes (_ ,i) (call-interactively 
',command))))))
+            (setq i (1- i)))
+          (reverse history))
+    (let* ((selection (x-popup-menu e map))
+          (binding (and selection (lookup-key map (vector (car selection))))))
+      (if binding (call-interactively binding)))))
+
+(defun Info-history-back-menu (e)
+  "Pop up the menu with a list of previously visited Info nodes."
+  (interactive "e")
+  (Info-history-menu e "Back in history" Info-history 'Info-history-back))
+
+(defun Info-history-forward-menu (e)
+  "Pop up the menu with a list of Info nodes visited with ‘Info-history-back’."
+  (interactive "e")
+  (Info-history-menu e "Forward in history" Info-history-forward 
'Info-history-forward))
+
 (defvar Info-menu-last-node nil)
 ;; Last node the menu was created for.
 ;; Value is a list, (FILE-NAME NODE-NAME).