Re: how to remove a menu item?

[B. T. Raven]

Xah Lee wrote:
> On Feb 3, 8:32 am, "B. T. Raven" <ni...@nihilo.net> wrote:
> > > Following is a removal of a bunch for those interested.
> > ...
> >
> > It seems like you are gutting so much of themenuthat it would be
> > easier to setmenu-bar-mode to nil. Except for reassigning modifier keys
> > (with KeyTweak) and putting cursor movement on the c,h,t,n keys
> > (necessary with the Dvorak layout) I have found it prudent to leave most
> > of the rest of RMS's mnemonic bindings alone. What you may end up with
> > after all your work is just aXahLee minor mode. Anyway, I do agree
> > that eventually some attention should be given to ergonomic issues but
> > the problems are so vast especially when internationalization is taken
> > into account that the job will have to be given to a committee rather
> > than an individual.
> >
> > Ed
>
> just wrote up some reasons about the emacs menu usability.
>
> its based on screenshots and drawings... so here
>
>   http://xahlee.org/emacs/modernization_menu.html
> or
>  http://xahlee.blogspot.com/2009/02/emacs-menu-usability-problem.html
>  (image here wont show unless you have it cached)
>
>   Xah
> ∑ http://xahlee.org/
>
> ☄

Thanks, Xah. Some of these suggestions might deserve consideration but 
the vast (as you say) majority should probably be left as they are. The 
only ones I am sure I could do without are Eliza, Games, and Read Man 
page. The latter doesn't work at all but that's because I'm on w32 and 
the man directories don't exist. The same help is available on info 
pages or on the web. I try to avoid using the menu bar as much as 
possible and I see it more as training wheels for those used to running 
software with that interface or those who can't type or who refuse to 
learn to type. It would be nice if ALL menu items had references to the 
non-menu key combos or to the underlying functions. For example, to Open 
Recent from the keyboard, all I have been able to come up with so far is:
(defalias 'rof 'recentf-open-files)

Ed