Re: Derived Mode 102 Keybindings and Menu

[Tim Johnson]

On 2006-03-21, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> This is the continuation of the Derived Mode 101 HOWTO thread.
>> Johan and Stefan were able to help me to set up syntax highlighting.
>> The following file extends the derived mode by adding keymaps, bindings
>> and a menu.
>
> Google around and see how other packages use the easymenu package.
> The typical way to use it is to have somewhere at the toplevel:

 :-) Just realized that the code I included *did not* include a menu.
      
> (easy-menu-define foo-menu foo-mode-map "Foo mode menu."
>   '("Foo"
>     [...]
>     [...]
>     ...))
>
> and then in foo-mode you do

 and I have menu working for both forks. For cross-compatibility XEmacs
 needs a more verbose approach, including passing the keymap as an
 argument. I will post the template later, when I've got time to
 annotate with some documentation.

 Thanks
 tim

>   (easy-menu-add foo-menu)
>
> and that's all there is to it and it should work on both Emacs and XEmacs
> (cross-compatibility is the raison d'être of easymenu.el).
>
>
>         Stefan


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