From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/68200 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: bug#2031: 23.0.60; Edit menu missing in Gnus buffers. Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 11:01:40 +0100 Message-ID: <87d4eb7lh7.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> References: <20090124203612.935EB9E022@smtp.fullrate.dk> <87ocxww993.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1232889916 23923 80.91.229.12 (25 Jan 2009 13:25:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 13:25:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 2031@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com, ding@gnus.org, storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: ding-owner+M16641@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Jan 25 11:04:36 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LR1qz-0006er-Sm for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 11:04:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LR1oo-00027h-Sm; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 04:02:18 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LR1on-00027T-HN for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 04:02:17 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LR1ok-0007cB-MU for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 04:02:17 -0600 Original-Received: from mail.uni-ulm.de ([134.60.1.11]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1LR1p2-0007MA-00 for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 11:02:32 +0100 Original-Received: from bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de (bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de [134.60.10.175]) by mail.uni-ulm.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n0PA1ieY021374; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 11:01:44 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD0E21359F; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 11:01:43 +0100 (CET) Mail-Followup-To: Chong Yidong , 2031@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com, ding@gnus.org, storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) X-Face: 1;h7XMU[7l}$T@J.D}5z*w8Tg'}B5ArAWc8>2X~otB;kOjKs8X%|hTC#dG:%Vpx")x7S/`v :VXU#fZW$X$zdhEU.RfVQ@<-m9IuN{Hm"fW{,5]6kR'M*vEs+{5Cj!L(JTRzA$(},?5J=sm;%Od (Chong Yidong's message of "Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:54:16 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) X-DCC-CTc-dcc1-Metrics: poseidon 1030; Body=4 Fuz1=4 Fuz2=4 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:68200 On Sun, Jan 25 2009, Chong Yidong wrote: > "Kim F. Storm" wrote: > >> This is an old bug - but still not fixed in Emacs 23. >> >> For some reason, M-x gnus consistently removes the Edit menu >> in all buffers related to gnus. There are so many top-level menus that they might not even fit on a typical 80 column frame depending on the fonts. >> It might be ok in the group overview, and possibly in the article >> overview, but in the article buffers, I think it must be shown. The only commands from Edit that might be useful are: - Copy - Select All - Goto / * Others? Maybe it would be better to remove the Tools menu instead? > Punting to ding---any objection to removing the calls to > gnus-turn-off-edit-menu in at least the article buffers? We have this since 1997 and I don't recall many complaints. So at least we would make it customizable (similar to message-tool-bar-zap-list). (defcustom gnus-menu-bar-zap-list '((t tools) ;; turn of tools many in all special Gnus buffers (category edit) (article nil) ;; keep edit in Article buffer (group edit) (server edit) (browse edit) (summary edit)) [...] Bye, Reiner. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/