Re: "modern" colors Re: Changes for emacs 28

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2020 15:17:54 +0200
> From: Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>
> Cc: casouri@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, ams@gnu.org,
>       monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, ghe@sdf.org, tecosaur@gmail.com
> 
> >If F10 is intercepted, perhaps we should also bind the command to
> >another key?  That's a simple and backward-compatible change.
> >
> I have discussed this with Stefan already and there are some small
> backward compatible changes we can do here because usually F10 is
> intercepted by gnome, toggle guake, gnome-terminal menu or tmux before
> arriving to emacs.
> 
> Some of the (non exclusive) options are: 
> 
> 1) Bind it also to another key

This is what I had in mind.

> 2) Show the binding somewhere (in the same bar or modeline) when
> xterm-mouse-mode is disabled.

I don't see how xterm-mouse-mode is relevant: we are not talking about
the mouse, and TTY menus work without a mouse as well.

> 3) Underline the letter in the menus that "opens" each menu from the
> keyboard (as some Windows applications do)

How will that help?

> 4) Enable xterm-mouse-mode by default in more situations as most of the
> popular terminal emulators are xterm compatible (gnome-term, xterm,
> konsole, rxvt, guake, terminator)

Again, xterm-mouse-mode is an orthogonal issue.