This file documents the drop-down menu support in non-Windows versions of jed. Menu Activation and Navigation ------------------------------ The menus may be activated via the mouse, or by pressing the F10 key or the ESC-m key. Also, ESC + accelerator character may be used to activate a particular menu-bar item, e.g. `ESC-f' to select the `File' menu, provided that the particular editor emulation does not bind the key to something else. For example, Emacs uses ESC-f to move by words. See the discussion about `enable_menu_keys' below to work around this problem. The arrow keys or the mouse may be used to navigate the menus. Use the ENTER key to select a menu item. To go back to a previous menu, press either the ESC key or the backspace key. Menu Colors ----------- The colors of the menus may be controlled by the `set_color' strings: "menu" Color of the menu bar "menu_popup" Color of the popped-up menu window "menu_char" Color of the keyboard-accelerator character "menu_selection" Color of the current selection "menu_shadow" Color of the popup-box shadow Special Hints ------------- To enable the mouse when running jed in an xterm, put the line enable_xmouse (); in your .jedrc file. To hide the menu bar, put enable_top_status_line (0); in your .jedrc file. This will hide the menu bar until it is activated via a key such as F10. Some terminals map the ALT key modifier to ESC + key. For such terminals, an item on the menu bar may be activated via the ALT key + the accelerator key, e.g., `ALT-f' to select the file menu. The main problem with hot-keys such as ESC-f is that certain modes rebind these keys to other function. To rebind these keys to the menubar functions, put the line: enable_menu_keys (); in your .jedrc file AFTER loading the appropriate editor emulation, e.g., emacs.