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Re: Item for TODO?
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Nick Roberts |
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Re: Item for TODO? |
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Sat, 22 Jan 2005 20:42:20 +1300 |
> I would like to see some of the toolbar functionality available to
> text-only terminals but do not want to do the work.
>
> Is it a generally desirable feature and can I add it to TODO? My angle is
> to improve Emacs capability as a debugger on a text-only terminal.
>
> I don't see the point. People who use text-only terminals normally
> do so because they prefer text commands.
Sometimes its because filtering prevents using X (remote connections), sometimes
its more convenient/quicker not to start an X server for simple tasks and
presumably some architectures don't have systems that support X.
> There is no way to display images, so a "tool bar" would have to have
> textual names, and then they might as well be in the menu bar. (A
> menu bar item doesn't have to lead to a menu. It can execute a
> command directly. Using submenus is just the usual practice.)
Can you give an example of how this would work on a tty?
I can configure a menu-item as a button in X, but if I do the same on a tty
it just presents me with a list of completions (of top-level menu items).
> Either way, you would have to invoke them with keys.
Thats not true. Text-only does not mean "no mouse". The command
tmm-menubar-mouse can be invoked by clicking on on the menubar with the mouse.
> So why not just bind the keys instead?
Since the mouse is generally available on ttys, why should the user be denied
the opportunity to use it?
Nick
Re: Item for TODO?, Richard Stallman, 2005/01/21