Re: activate menubar

Karl Stroetmann wrote:

> here is a simple question that I was not able to figure out myself
> after reading lots of Info pages.  Maybe someone can help.
> 
> If I start XEmacs, it comes up with a menubar of the form
> 
>  File  Edit  View  Cmds  Tools  Options  Buffers        Help
> 
> Some of these letters are undelined, for example in "File" the letter
> 'F' is underlined.  This indicates to me that there must be some way
> to activate the menu via the keyboard.  I have tried various key
> combinations and looked up all the key bindings but I was not able to
> figure out how to activate the menu without the mouse.  Can it be
> done? Please help.

You may need to explicitly enable keyboard activation in your ~/.emacs
file, e.g.:

	(setq menu-accelerator-enabled 'menu-fallback)
	(setq menu-accelerator-modifiers '(alt))

You probably don't want to use Meta as the modifier, as Meta-<key> is
heavily used within XEmacs. If you don't have both Alt and Meta keys,
you will probably want to use some other mechanism, e.g. setting
menu-accelerator-prefix.

Alternatively, you can defining a key sequence to activate menu
navigation, e.g.

	(define-key global-map 'f10 'accelerate-menu)

Then you can navigate the menu using the accelerators as well as the
cursor keys; use Esc to go back one level, C-g to quit.

-- 
Glynn Clements <[email protected]>