More Customizable Menus

[Thorsten Haude]

Hi,

* Jörg Fischer wrote (2007-09-09 11:28):
>I have a patch (didn't create a diff file, yet - it needs some cleaning first)
>that allows to hide macro menu items, to add separators, and to add prefix 
>text to the shortcuts. [...]

Sweet.

One tiny thing: I think it might be more useful to add the separator
over an item, not under it.


>The idea is (of course ;-) to make the File, Edit and Search menus
>customizable - I always thought my Save All files macro should go to
>the File menu like  
>
>"Save [All]   [Shift]Ctrl+S"

I agree, but how comes your patch into this? Do you want it to control
all menus?


>Moreover, I have better fill_paragraph and lower/uppercase functions.

Show them.


>Now, while I'm about to add these menus, I see that there are a couple
>of entries I can't do with macros.  There are the File->Open Previous
>and Unload tags/tips file and the Search->Mark/Goto Mark things, also
>Ctrl+i opens the inceremental search bar.


>There seems also to be some special SHORT/FULL options for SGI, which
>I can't test.

I hear you. The short/simple menu idea is not bad, but why SGI?


>Any suggestion of how to restructure these menus?  Is there interest
>in this patch?  I'll use it for myself, but of course I'll share it,
>too.

I'm interested.


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