Re: emacs-nox (console version) - how to get menus to work

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 28.09.2013 um 11:41 schrieb James Freer:

> So it must be a simple keystroke I'd have thought.

It is – only that you don't get yet pull-down menus, as Eli wrote. What you get 
is something like this (edited a bit):

        File Edit Options Buffers Tools Minibuf Help                            
                                            
        ("emacs")
        For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
        Making completion list... [2 times]
        You can run the command `tmm-menubar' with M-`
        Making completion list...
        
        
        
        
        -UUU:**--F1  *Messages*     All L6     (Fundamental) 
-------------------------------
        Press PageUp key to reach this buffer from the minibuffer.
        Alternatively, you can use Up/Down keys (or your History keys) to change
        the item in the minibuffer, and press RET when you are done, or press 
the
        marked letters to pick up your choice.  Type C-g or ESC ESC ESC to 
cancel.
        In this buffer, type RET to select the completion near point.
        
        Possible completions are:
        b==>Buffers               e==>Edit                  f==>File
        h==>Help                  o==>Options               t==>Tools
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        -UUU:%*--F1  *Completions*   All L1     (Completion List) 
--------------------------
        Menu bar (up/down to change, PgUp to menu): f==>File

There are two windows. I pressed F10 in one of them, the upper one, *Messages*, 
and it divided, showing the list of menus in the "menu bar" in the newly 
created *Completions* buffer. The mini-buffer shows a first choice that you can 
override plus a means to navigate through the menus and menu entries. When you 
have chosen a menu, the *Completions* buffer then shows the entries of this 
selected menu. And so on.

It's probably easier to work through the tutorial and learn a few commands 
bound to keys…

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Greetings

  Pete

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