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From: darrylo@hpnmxx.sr.hp.com
Subject: [emacs...] Re: Menu bar (pull down) in Emacs?
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Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1991 23:12:37 GMT
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Archive-name: gnu/emacs/gnuserv/1991-04-17
Archive: cs.umn.edu:/pub/gnu/emacs/gnuserv.tar.Z [128.101.224.1]
Original-posting-by: darrylo@hpnmxx.sr.hp.com
Original-subject: Re: Menu bar (pull down) in Emacs?
Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN)

> Is there a way to have a permanent menu bar at the top of the screen?
> The menu bar could be invoked by some ctrl-key. 
> 
> Is there a macro package that offers this kind of a menu add-on for
> general emacs editing (so you don't have to remember all those key
> sequences)?

     Use Andy Norman's gnuclient (aka, "gnuserv") package (it's
basically a super-enhanced emacsclient).  The gnuclient package has a
C program, "gnudoit", which allows you to send arbitrary elisp expressions
to a running Emacs program for evaluation.

     How is this relevant to your question?  Well, you can now use your
favorite X-window manager (twm, mwm, olwm, etc.) to have Emacs-specific
pop-up menus -- just execute the "gnudoit" program with the appropriate
arguments.

     -- Darryl Okahata
	UUCP: {hplabs!, hpcea!, hpfcla!} hpnmd!darrylo
	Internet: darrylo%hpnmd@relay.hp.com

DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not
constitute the support, opinion or policy of Hewlett-Packard or of the
little green men that have been following him all day.

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