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@@ -65,6 +65,22 @@ To use the old backend by default, do on the command line: * Changes in Emacs 24.4 ++++ +** Emacs now supports menus on text-mode terminals. +If the terminal supports a mouse, clicking on the menu bar, or on +sensitive portions of the mode line or header line, will drop down the +menu defined at that position. Likewise, clicking C-mouse-2 or +C-mouse-2 or C-mouse-3 on the text area will pop up the menus defined +for those locations. + +If the text terminal does not support a mouse, you can activate the +first menu-bar menu by typing F10, which invokes `menu-bar-open'. + +If you want the previous behavior, whereby F10 invoked `tmm-menubar', +customize the option `tty-menu-open-use-tmm' to a non-nil value. +(Typing M-` will always invoke `tmm-menubar', even if +`tty-menu-open-use-tmm' is nil.) + ** Key ? also describes prefix bindings like C-h. +++ @@ -641,6 +657,10 @@ for something (not just adding elements to it), it ought not to affect you. * Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.4 +** Functions that pop up menus and dialogs now work on all terminal types. +This includes `x-popup-menu', `x-popup-dialog', `message-box', +`yes-or-no-p', etc. + ** New bool-vector set operation functions: *** `bool-vector-exclusive-or' *** `bool-vector-union' |