I've found myself consistently right clicking in the notation editor only to 
find nothing interesting there.  Upon investigating how this all works, I see 
that there are (at least?) three context menus which depend on which tool is 
active, one of arrow (select mode?), eraser, or some note or rest duration 
(insert mode.)

I didn't actually notice that the context menus in insert mode and in erase 
mode had useful things on them before today.  Evidently, I always right click 
when in selection mode, and find nothing there but the choice to switch to 
one of the other tools.

I've now got the option to collapse rests on this menu (action 
collapse_rests_aggressively) as a proof of concept that I can stuff all the 
right bits in here without having to do anything terribly complicated, and 
this means I might actually sit down and do something really useful for once.

Now I'm sitting here wondering just what it is that I keep wishing would be on 
this menu.  I recently submitted an RFE for the entire Ajust menu on here, 
but I think that would be too much.

I'm thinking of something laid out a bit like this...

Insert Tool context menu (note or rest duration tool selected):

This seems about right, and looks useful for improving workflow.  I'd almost 
like to see a duration chooser here, but it seems a bit iffy since it's 
probably one menu that would have to do tricky things to figure out whether 
it's inserting notes, rests or dotted notes; and I should just learn the 
duration keyboard shortcuts anyway.  So I'm thinking to leave this alone, 
unless anyone has other suggestions.

Erase Tool context menu (eraser selected):

This seems about right too, now that I've finally noticed it, but I'm open to 
suggestions.

Select Tool context menu (arrow selected):

This is where the SURVEY: bit comes in.  I'd like feedback.

I'm thinking the most useful things to put here would be

Stem Direction
Rests 
Notes
Visibility

with all the options at the top level, instead of buried one layer down.

Anything I should omit from this in the interest of simplicity?  Anything I 
should add?

What about the other two menus?

I'm not talking about anything new here, just adding existing actions to 
existing menu(s) in the interest of keeping the most useful things closer at 
hand, and minimizing mouse travel.  Especially useful things that don't 
already have keyboard shortcuts, but even some that do (for the people like 
me who never remember any but a couple of the most often-used shortcuts.)

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Michael McIntyre  ----   Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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