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From: | Lennart Borgman (gmail) |
Subject: | Re: Support routines for popup menus |
Date: | Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:16:20 +0100 |
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Richard Stallman wrote:
To show the menu where point is, not where the mouse cursor is. It displays the menu under the point with point visible, if possible. (IfI expect people will find that very strange and inconvenient.
I guess you are misunderstanding. The purpose is not to show the popup menu at the point when clicking with the mouse.
I thinks computer users today are used to menus that popup at the point for operations that has something to do with the text at point - even when they work with the keyboard. I have for example used this for completion in nXhtml:
http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/nXhtml/doc/nxhtml.html#completion I think there are other Emacs libraries that does similar things.
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