Questions tagged [menu-bar]
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How to use the menu bar in terminal emacs?
I am using emacs on the remote server, and I have no idea how to click on options in the menu bar across the top in this context.
Here is a screen capture:
For example, I want to click some options under "File" in the menu bar (on the top), how…
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Emacs and OS X Menu Bar
Been looking for a solution to this for a while now. On OS X minors mode fill the menu bar with useless menu items. Here's a screenshot:
If you can't tell, Emacs menu items are blocking the rest of my menu bar. Is there a way to tell Emacs to not…
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How do I disable menu-bar-mode only for tty frames?
I run both gui frames and tty frames on the same server. I'd like to only have the gui frames have the menu-bar and I want all tty frames to not have a menu bar.
I'm confused by the menu bar docs, is there a way to do this?
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How to add an item to the menu bar?
I have a set of functions that I'd like to put to menu bar for ease of access. For this, I need to create new menu item on menu bar. How can I achieve that?
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How do I change the menu font size?
Right now the font in the menu bar is way too big, so I would like to add a line to my .emacs file that regulates that font size. I already have a line that takes care of the buffer font size, but it doesn't affect the menu.
Context: I am sshing…
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How to go up one level in the menu-bar when using the keyboard to access menus
When I go many levels down into the menus in the menu bar, is there a way to go back up just one level? To illustrate:
Start Emacs
Press F10 to open the menu bar
Press Ctrlf to reach the "Edit" menu.
Press Ctrln repeatedly until the "Search"…
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Access menu-bar using keyboard on Mac OS X
When I hit C-f2 in any Mac OS X app (e.g., terminal, firefox), I get
keyboard access to the menu bar (file/edit/options &c)
In emacs I get a message is undefined in the Echo Area.
When I hit f10 (menu-bar-open) in Emacs, get the 2 item menu…
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Understanding "It is bound to ..." message in describe-function
If you ask for a function description, there is a line that starts:
It is bound to <...> <...> <...>
For example, for isearch it says:
It is bound to
What does it mean? Isn't it supposed to show the…
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How to add a right-aligned menu item to menu-bar?
I hide the window title bar, so I can't use the close window button in the top right corner.
I want to add a menu item with no drop-down menu on the far right side of menu-bar, which can only be clicked as close window button.
A more detailed…
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How to use menu bar at the top via mouse?
I am opening emacs in --no-window-system mode and I switched xterm-mouse-mode on. Mouse clicks within a buffer work. However, I want the menu at the top of the window to open when I click on it.
I.e., when I click on File, I want the dropdown menu…
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How can I use the console's menu-bar while running under xwindows?
I like the variable font size feature that emacs has under xwindows.
But, I dislike the menus under xwindows. They are generated by GTK or something and they stick out like a sore thumb.
Can I use emacs's rendering engine instead of GTK to draw…
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How to get UTF-8 displayed properly in Emacs menus?
I use GNU Emacs 23.4.1 that comes with Debian Wheezy and UTF-8 as system character encoding. When I add bookmark it displays properly in minibuffer and in the buffer, however the bookmark name is mangled in Emacs bookmarks menu ("Jump to bookmark"…
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How do I completely re-define the menubar in 28.2
I have been using XEmacs for years and have completely redefined the menubar for my productivity. I would like to replace XEmacs with Emacs 28.2. I have tried several ways to redefine some menubar items, but so far, no luck. I copied menu-bar.el to…
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describe key for menu-bar items from `menu-bar-open` calls
Preface: I disabled menu-bar-mode and bound to menu-bar-open, via (global-set-key [mouse-3] #'menu-bar-open)
With this configuration, how can I get help for menu-bar items?
(My ugly workaround now is to temporary enable menu-bar-mode and…
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suppress command echoes from menu-bar items
When selecting items from the menu-bar, then the echo area echoes the selected menu item.
Test this by selecting menu-bar -> file -> new window below, when you clicked this menu-bar item, then the echo area states: menu-bar file new-window-below.
(I…
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