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diff --git a/runtime/doc/gui.txt b/runtime/doc/gui.txt index 4205362484..b3b8b2d2c0 100644 --- a/runtime/doc/gui.txt +++ b/runtime/doc/gui.txt @@ -195,6 +195,10 @@ the mouse button down on this will pop up a menu containing the item "Big Changes", which is a sub-menu containing the item "Delete All Spaces", which when selected, performs the operation. +To create a menu for terminal mode, use |:tlmenu| instead of |:tmenu| unlike +key mapping (|:tmap|). This is because |:tmenu| is already used for defining +tooltips for menus. See |terminal-input|. + Special characters in a menu name: & The next character is the shortcut key. Make sure each @@ -214,9 +218,9 @@ this menu can be used. The second part is shown as "Open :e". The ":e" is right aligned, and the "O" is underlined, to indicate it is the shortcut. *:am* *:amenu* *:an* *:anoremenu* -The ":amenu" command can be used to define menu entries for all modes at once. -To make the command work correctly, a character is automatically inserted for -some modes: +The ":amenu" command can be used to define menu entries for all modes at once, +expect for Terminal mode. To make the command work correctly, a character is +automatically inserted for some modes: mode inserted appended ~ Normal nothing nothing Visual <C-C> <C-\><C-G> @@ -469,6 +473,16 @@ Executing Menus *execute-menus* insert-mode menu Eg: > :emenu File.Exit +:[range]em[enu] {mode} {menu} Like above, but execute the menu for {mode}: + 'n': |:nmenu| Normal mode + 'v': |:vmenu| Visual mode + 's': |:smenu| Select mode + 'o': |:omenu| Operator-pending mode + 't': |:tlmenu| Terminal mode + 'i': |:imenu| Insert mode + 'c': |:cmenu| Cmdline mode + + You can use :emenu to access useful menu items you may have got used to from GUI mode. See 'wildmenu' for an option that works well with this. See |console-menus| for an example. @@ -547,6 +561,8 @@ See section |42.4| in the user manual. :tu[nmenu] {menupath} Remove a tip for a menu or tool. {only in X11 and Win32 GUI} +Note: To create menus for terminal mode, use |:tlmenu| instead. + When a tip is defined for a menu item, it appears in the command-line area when the mouse is over that item, much like a standard Windows menu hint in the status bar. (Except when Vim is in Command-line mode, when of course |