On Tuesday 18 June 2002 6:22 pm, David List wrote:
I have a pretty hard time reaching the menus in emacs on the console. I have seen suggestions á la F10 and M-` but none of these work. Right now, F10 calls up Eval. I could live without that shortcut, so how do I set F10 to bring out the menus? I use the emacs that comes with SuSE Linux 7.3 (20.7.1).
From info emacs: On text-only terminals with no mouse, you can use the menu bar by typing `M-`' or <F10> (these run the command `tmm-menubar'). This command enters a mode in which you can select a menu item from the keyboard. A provisional choice appears in the echo area. You can use the left and right arrow keys to move through the menu to different choices. When you have found the choice you want, type <RET> to select it. What has happened is that you have a key-binding for f10 to eval. Sorry I don't have a copy of 7.3 to hand. In SuSE 8.0: Edit your file ~/.gnu-emacs Comment out the line with the f10 key-binding (;; at the beginning of that line) emacs -nw Press F10 Enjoy. HTH Jon