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In article <3545@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> phil@eecs.nwu.edu (William LeFebvre) writes:
>This makes me think "why doesn't epoch simply PROVIDE us with menus?"
>Surely this wouldn't be difficult.  Why can't we simply have a collection
>of e-lisp functions that provide pop-up menu support?
> ...
>It just seems rather....umm....inconvenience and inefficient to rely
>on something like xmenu or gwm for menu support.

I agree.  We have a large number of people using twm -- switching to gwm
would be a serious disruption, and the slow response of xmenu makes it
impractical.
To compensate for the lack of menus I have hacked the X function and
keypad key handling in both epoch and emacs to allow <shift>, <control>
and <alt> modifiers.  I have also added the "term" directory back under
the lisp library in epoch to incorporate extensive mappings for particular
keyboards.  This allows a logical and rational mapping of all frequently
used commands, but menus would still be preferred for novice users.


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