[OS X Emacs] ECB context menu in Aquamacs

Robert Goldman rpgoldman at sift.info
Sun Oct 2 12:33:58 EDT 2011


On 9/30/11 Sep 30 -5:51 PM, Nathaniel Cunningham wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Robert Goldman <rpgoldman at sift.info
> <mailto:rpgoldman at sift.info>> wrote:
> 
> 
>     > There is a second approach in place to return mouse-3 to its
>     vanilla Emacs
>     > behavior:
>     > In the Aquamacs help/manual, section 4.3 "Customizing Aquamacs
>     behavior",
>     > under "Want some GNU Emacs 23 behavior back?" there is a list of
>     > Aquamacs-specific settings that can be customized, including "OS X
>     Key Mode
>     > Mouse-3 Behavior".  Try customizing that setting as described in
>     the help --
>     > that may allow ECB to behave as in vanilla Emacs.
> 
>     I tried to follow your reference above, but it doesn't work for me.  I
>     have Aquamacs 2.3a, and when I go to "Bringing some Emacs 23 behavior
>     back" the whole of the text at that node is:
> 
>  
> <snip>
>  
> 
>     can you amplify?  What version of the manual are you looking at?
> 
> 
> Sure, Robert, though as David points out this might not be the solution
> you're after.
> 
> The  manual is that for Aquamacs 2.3a.  The subsection I'm referring to
> is (the tail end of) "Customizing Aquamacs", which is sec. 4.3 in the
> PDF manual.  The Apple Help version is not similarly numbered, but
> "Customizing Aquamacs" is a page under the larger heading of "Aquamacs
> for Emacs veterans".
> 
> It turns out that "Bringing some Emacs 23 behavior back" is a subsection
> (4.1) in parallel with "Customizing Aquamacs" (sec 4.3), but "Want some
> GNU Emacs 23 behavior back?" is a bullet in the latter subsection.

A follow-up to that with a couple of suggestions about labeling:

1.  Why are the section numbers stripped off on the online version of
the manual?  It doesn't seem to do any actual good to do this, and it
complicates references, as in this case here?

2.  Why is the Help menu entry "Aquamacs Help" when it points to the
Aquamacs manual?  I found it confusing to find the Aquamacs manual,
because the only "manual" in this menu is "Emacs manual".  What about
retitling the entry to "Aquamacs manual"?

Cheers,
R




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