Re: Keystroke inconsistencies between GUI and -nw emacs?

[Richard Riley]

Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko@gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 11:47:24 -0400
> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> > (1) Was this done by design?
>> 
>> Yes, F10 is supposed to show you the menu-bar "the GUI way".  In a tty
>> this is not implemented (yet?), so it fallsback on tmm-menubar.
>
> I see, thanks. I am actually looking these days into the code that
> should implement that MSDOS-like menu look&feel into the tty, but it
> should still keep the keystroke-compatibility with the tmm-menubar,
> only the visual appearance of the menus should be different.


Depends on the terminal you're using. It's confusing and inconsistent
between different terminal types. I ended up pretty much ignoring
function keys when using terminal emacs after struggling with
termcap/tty info etc etc. But then again I didnt stick at it!