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bug#46990: 28.0.50; popup menu not navigable via arrow keys on lucid bui
From: |
Colin Baxter |
Subject: |
bug#46990: 28.0.50; popup menu not navigable via arrow keys on lucid build |
Date: |
Thu, 11 Mar 2021 13:23:26 +0000 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
>>>>> Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org> writes:
>>>>> Can you or someone who sees the problem please bisect this?
>>>>> I'm delaying the release of Emacs 27.2 in the hope that we
>>>>> could fix it, if indeed this was introduced between 27.1.90
>>>>> and 27.1.91.
>>>>
>>>> I may be guilty of crying wolf when there is none. If I
>>>> configure the 27.1.91 pretest for lucid and "make", the effect
>>>> does occur on launching emacs via src/emacs. However if I go
>>>> the next step and "make install", the effect does not occur
>>>> when I launch the installed emacs. I will double-check this by
>>>> installing from the git master branch and report back.
>>>>
>>>> I am sorry. I stupidly assumed launching emacs from an src
>>>> directory would give the same beast as launching from the
>>>> installed bin directory.
>>>
>>> No need to be sorry: your assumption was correct. Emacs should
>>> generally work the same when you run it uninstalled. It is
>>> strange that it doesn't in this case.
>>>
>> It seems that what Colin describes is an old (and indeed strange)
>> behavior. I just tried (on Debian GNU/Linux) various revisions
>> of the trunk (up to 5b464a9cea from three years ago), and with
>> --with-x-toolkit=lucid the menu cannot be navigated with arrow
>> keys with an uninstalled emacs, and can be navigated with an
>> installed one.
Colin> Investigating further, I find that if I launch a lucid
Colin> "emacs-28" via
Colin> src/temacs -Q
Colin> and evaluate (menu-bar-mode -1) then the popup menu, formed
Colin> from <f10>, does indeed allow navigation from the arrow keys
Colin> (as well as the mouse). Only launching "emacs-28" from the
Colin> following
Colin> 1. src/emacs -Q 2. src/bootstrap-emacs -Q
Colin> 3. src/emacs-28.0.50.1 -Q
Colin> fails to allow the popup menu-bar to be navigable from the
Colin> arrow keys.
If I miss out the batch option and make an emacs by
./temacs -l loadup --temacs=pdump
then ./emacs -Q will allow the popup menu to be navigable via the arrow
keys.
This is about as far as my knowledge will allow. I will leave it to
others to decide what it all means.
Best wishes,
Colin Baxter.
- bug#46990: 28.0.50; popup menu not navigable via arrow keys on lucid build, (continued)
- bug#46990: 28.0.50; popup menu not navigable via arrow keys on lucid build, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/03/10
- bug#46990: 28.0.50; popup menu not navigable via arrow keys on lucid build, Colin Baxter, 2021/03/10
- bug#46990: 28.0.50; popup menu not navigable via arrow keys on lucid build, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/03/10
- bug#46990: 28.0.50; popup menu not navigable via arrow keys on lucid build, Colin Baxter, 2021/03/10
- bug#46990: 28.0.50; popup menu not navigable via arrow keys on lucid build, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/03/10
- bug#46990: 28.0.50; popup menu not navigable via arrow keys on lucid build, Gregory Heytings, 2021/03/10
- bug#46990: 28.0.50; popup menu not navigable via arrow keys on lucid build, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/03/11
- bug#46990: 28.0.50; popup menu not navigable via arrow keys on lucid build, Colin Baxter, 2021/03/11
- bug#46990: 28.0.50; popup menu not navigable via arrow keys on lucid build,
Colin Baxter <=
- bug#46990: 28.0.50; popup menu not navigable via arrow keys on lucid build, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/03/11
- bug#46990: 28.0.50; popup menu not navigable via arrow keys on lucid build, Gregory Heytings, 2021/03/11
- bug#46990: 28.0.50; popup menu not navigable via arrow keys on lucid build, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/03/11