Hi, whenever I find myself doing a demonstration of Emacs capabilities and features, I find myself using keyboard commands. That is not helpful to onlookers who just see magic happening.
So I have to force myself to use the mouse. Now what would be very handy is something quite similar to some help messages after M-x commands: whenever Emacs finds that I used a key sequence from the current major mode (it should be configurable which keymaps it consults for a particular demo) that is also available as a menu, Emacs should fake myself using the mouse: it should move the mouse cursor (like it manages in mouse-avoidance mode) to the respective menu, hover a bit, "click" it open, move the cursor down to the correct menu, hover a bit, click on the menu, show the action. If any dialogs get popped up in consequence, they should be mouse dialogs, in the spirit of the mouse faking. Of course, I don't want a "busy" cursor while this emulation is going on. If this sort of emulation works with recorded keyboard macros, and one can edit delays into it, that would be a plus: one could replay a complete demo without actually needing to touch the keyboard. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
