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From: Soren Dayton <csdayton@cs.uchicago.edu>
Date: 15 Mar 1997 20:15:50 -0600
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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:

> Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com> writes:
> 
> > Under FSF Emacs menu-bar-mode controls whether menus are displayed.
> > It doesn't specify maenus can be displayed.
> 
> OK.  But then the matter of device-localness is irrelevant anyway,

yes!

> because (in a correct implementation):
 
> 1) you setup the menubar and toolbar the way you'd like them to be,
>    regardless of whether they'll be displayed;
> 2) on the devices that can display them, the user can choose if
>    they'll be displayed using menu-bar-mode and such;
> 3) on the devices that can't display them, they won't be displayed;
> 4) a user should be able to have the same buffer moved from device to
>    device, with the menus correctly displayed in the devices that can
>    display them, and without errors on devices that can't display
>    them.
> 
> How close is XEmacs to the state described by these 4 points?

I think that we do not have (2).  and we cannot really test (4) because
our only devices are X and tty.  tty only supports faces from the total
number of things that X can do.  This is why a native NT port would be
an excellent proof of concept

Soren

