Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mstar!mstar.morningstar.com!bob From: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs Subject: Re: ok to use XMenu option in 18.55 for SunOS 4.0.1 with X11R3 ?? Message-ID: Date: 27 Dec 89 14:31:52 GMT References: Sender: news@MorningStar.COM (USENET Administrator) Reply-To: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) Distribution: gnu Organization: Morning Star Technologies Lines: 25 In-reply-to: eho@clarity.Princeton.EDU's message of 24 Dec 89 02:30:50 GMT In article eho@clarity.Princeton.EDU (Eric Ho) writes: I've looked into the oldXmenu subdir and its README file discourages users to use it but src/config.h allows people to enable that flag. Can I enable it ? Sure, why not? If it feels good for you... That menu package originated between X10R3 and X10R4, then was ported to X11 about X11R1. Though its use was discouraged for reasons of aesthetics and progress, it was included with the X11 distribution through R2, then dropped from R3 altogether. It was a fairly literal port (you've seen Fortran code written in C, right? same idea between X10 and X11), and isn't necessarily guaranteed to interact correctly with all the latest X stuff (ICCCM, etc.) that didn't exist then. Still, it works for now, and is included with Emacs because it's convenient for those people who became accustomed to using pop-up menus in Emacs back in the late-Pleistocene X10 era. If your users have C-S-Left wired into their wrists, they'll probably complain if it disappears. Perhaps one day, if there's a Consortium-blessed Toolkit menu package that won't bloat Emacs yet too much further, it will be used instead.