Re: [RFA] Console based mouse face highlighting.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Nick Roberts <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 11:31:46 +1200
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
>  >     The menubar still doesn't work.  I hope that we can get rid of tmm.el 
> in
>  >     Emacs 23 and make menus work along the lines that David Kastrup and Eli
>  >     Zaretskii suggested.
>  > 
>  > Can you resend me that suggestion?  I don't recall what they proposed.
> 
> My understanding was that it should work like a DOS application (!), where the
> menu appears as in-situ text overlaying existing text.  To see how this works
> on GNU/Linux, run midnight commander or aptitude from the console. for 
> example.

More accurate, my suggestion was to do something similar to the MSDOS
port of Emacs.  Most of the code can be lifted from msdos.c.