Re: I want both keyboard-accelerated and conventional commands in

["Andreas C. Lemke" <andreas@BOULDER.COLORADO.EDU>]

>    Date: Thu, 9 Mar 89 15:22:36 EDT
>    From: cogen@XN.LL.MIT.EDU (David Cogen)
>
>    The documentation for DEFINE-PROGRAM-FRAMEWORK states (volume 7-A revised, page
>    97) that if :KBD-ACCELERATOR-P is T, to enter an unaccelerated command the user
>    must first type colon or m-X. I don't get this behavior. Consider the following
>    example program:
>
>    (dw:define-program-framework test-frame
>      :command-definer t
>      :command-table (:inherit-from '("user") :kbd-accelerator-p t)
>      :panes ((menu-window :command-menu)
>	      (interactor-window :interactor))
>      :terminal-io-pane interactor-window
>      :configurations
>	'((main
>	    (:layout
>	      (main :column menu-window interactor-window))
>	    (:sizes
>	      (main (menu-window :ask-window self :size-for-pane menu-window)
>		    :then
>		    (interactor-window :even)))))
>	:select-key #\a)
>
>Include "Colon Full Command" in the :INHERIT-FROM list.  This command
>table provides colon, m-X, and c-m-Y.  You may also want to include
>"Input Editor Compatibility", too; it provides a bunch of no-op commands
>(Space, Return, etc.) that can be used to cause redisplay.
>
>                                                barmar

If your accelerators are all non letters (e.g., #\c-G), then you can
specify

  :top-level (dw:default-command-top-level
                :unknown-accelerator-is-command t)

This way you can type in commands without any prefix character.  You
don't need "colon full command" in this case.

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