Questions tagged [menus]
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Menu erratic behavior
Due to versionitis I upgraded my old emacs 25.1.1
to 27.1
I have some old menu elisp code (that I dont pretend to understand) which I found broke: viz the menu opens but is a thin bar with no text
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How to add a kill-buffer item at the beginning of the Buffers menu-bar menu?
When I want to kill a buffer and I have my hands on the keyboard it's simply
C-x k RET but if I have already the right hand on the mouse the k RET part is a bit out of reach for my left hand…
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Getting a dialogue box of custom scripts
I have a bunch of scripts for managing files/directories that I use on a regular basis. Would it be possible to assign a key binding such that whenever I hit this key binding I get a dialogue box that ...
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How can I show a quick menu for the user from Emacs Lisp?
I found EasyMenu and and I tried the example:
(easy-menu-define my-menu global-map "My own menu"
'("My Stuff"
["One entry" my-function t]
("Sub Menu"
["My subentry" my-obscure-function ...
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Is there a way (a package?) to “redirect” pop-up menus to the minibuffer, ido, or completion buffer; either generic or flyspell-specific
Sometimes I must use Emacs (in X mode) over a network connection (for example, working on a cloud VM). I am pretty comfortable with the interface responsiveness inside a frame, although X is ...
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How to advise code to keep popup menus within frame?
How to advise code that pops up menus (like the ones you get by left-clicking a major-mode indicator in the modeline) to stay within the current Emacs frame?
Background:
Probably this is a bug within ...
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right click for menu with choices (to change font size)?
I am using emacs 26.1 under macos. when I right-click with the mouse, emacs seems to want to select the region. alas, I would prefer to see a popup menu where I can select a few choices that I would ...
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Command to invoke menu-bar's open-file?
The traditional way of opening a file is via C-x C-f (find-file). I don't know since when this has been the case, but in Emacs 27.0.50 (Linux), using the menu bar's File -> Open File invokes the GTK ...
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How to use a menu to jump between sections of a document?
I would like to define my own rules for what a section of a document is, then use this so I can popup a list of sections I can auto-complete or use arrow keys to jump between them.
Take a simple ...
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put menus, defined in packages, as submenu into own menu-bar menu
Introduction: The menu-bar is a nice institution of emacs to remember a command and its shortcut. Using then easy-menu-define for defining own menus is pretty awesome with regard to this purpose. So ...
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Spacemacs menu in mini-buffer displays Dired+ “C-x D A” command unreliably
Two weeks ago I installed Dired+.
I successfully used Dired+ C-x D A (diredp-add-to-dired-buffer) command.
But the Dired+ C-x D A command is not always available.
Sometimes after C-x, the D appears ...
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Key assignments in init file issue
I am customizing emacs X11 on a Linux box. By default, C-x C-s is bound to save-buffer, and C-x C-s shows as the keyboard shortcut in the File->Save menu. If I put into my .emacs file the following ...
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Duplicate menu items in spacemacs
As you can see in the screen shot below:
Subdir appears twice under Subdir. All the submenu items are identical
It also happens to Operate, Mark, Regexp and Immediate too
Here are the screenshot of ...
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buffer menu unsort entries
Where can I handle how the control + left-click menu displays entries?
This is how it looks when it is displayed the way I want, i.e. with no fancy sorting by file type:
And this is how it looks ...
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menu navigation in source file
Is it available a mode that, entering a source file, scans it to find all the function, class and methods declarations and eventually install a menu that enables jumping around in the source file?
I ...
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How do I page when “ESC - (1 of n) [C-h paging/help]” shows in the emacs status bar?
I am an Emacs newbie having some problems navigating around when using the terminal, but pressing the ESC key brings up a huge list of key options which gives me the option of paging down and possibly ...
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How to write a function with an interactive choice of the value of the argument?
How to write a function in Emacs Lisp that interactively would give the opportunity to choose one of the options?
Choose your animal: Cow Rabbit Dog
You have to press 1 to select Cow, 2 to select ...
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how to prevent buffer menu from folding
Is there a way to prevent emacs from folding the buffer menu?
Example, when I Control + 'right click' on a buffer I see a menu like this:
Buffer Menu
-----------
JavaScript >
XQuery >
Custom &...
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How can I create custom menu prompts in elisp?
I have two elisp functions:
$ cat ~/myelisp/myoptions.el
(defun get-my-name (arg)
"Prompt user to enter a string, with input history support."
(interactive
(list
(read-string "Enter your ...
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How to write a loop to remove all the items in menubar?
The menubar of the mac port emacs can not be disabled.
I currently use
(define-key global-map [menu-bar file] nil)
(define-key global-map [menu-bar edit] nil)
(define-key global-map [menu-bar ...
