More Customizable Menus

[Tony Balinski]

Quoting Joerg Fischer <jf505 at gmx.de>:

> Hi,
>
> 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. Here are some screenshots, so you get the idea:
>
> http://nedit.gmxhome.de/patch/fillsel.png
> http://nedit.gmxhome.de/patch/test.png
> http://nedit.gmxhome.de/patch/test2.png
>
> and here is how the macro menu looks like
>
> http://nedit.gmxhome.de/patch/tear-off.png
>
>
> 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"
>
> Moreover, I have better fill_paragraph and lower/uppercase functions.
> Anyway, you could customize these menus to your wishes, and have
> separators for the Shell, Macro and Background menus.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.

Very cool, IMO. I'd certainly like a patch. It would be good to be able to
make separators visible in the left-hand list of the macro dialog, though.

Tony