Re: Patch request - menu modifications

[Emanuel Berg]

David Masterson wrote:

> I'd like to request two simple changes to the basic Emacs
> menus:
>
> 1. Add dired-quit ('q') to the dired menus. It would make it
> easier to traverse a directory tree using just the mouse
> (click directory to descend and click dired-quit to return
> up). To me, it is not obvious which menu to put it in.

Interesting ... I don't even have "dired-quit", q meanwhile is
`quit-window', which isn't dired specific ... certainly it
doesn't help you "descend", it buries the buffer!

Maybe you look for `dired-up-directory'?

(Here, it depends how you visualize the file system hierarchy,
I think ./ is _downmost_, like the basic element [1], but some
people think it it is the top node in a tree-like
data structure.)

> 2. Add kill-this-buffer to the "Buffers" menu. The funny
> thing is that where-is reports it as "<menu-bar> <file>
> <kill-buffer>", but I don't see it there.

`C-x k' `kill-buffer' ... so the menu has its own functions, now?

kill-this-buffer:

  This command can be reliably invoked only from the menu bar,
  otherwise it could decide to silently do nothing.

"it could decide"? ??? Okay?

> "GNU Emacs 27.1 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit,
> Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2020-12-14"

I have

  GNU Emacs 28.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+
  Version 3.24.5, cairo version 1.16.0) of 2020-10-23


[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwY8FXOivko - okay, just
    remember it was a whole different culture in the 90s...
    well, evidently ;)

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