Menu (feature request) about textadept HOT 5 OPEN

I agree this would be nice to have. Thanks for the reminder. While CDK (the terminal widget toolkit Textadept uses) supports menu widgets, I don't think it has a menu bar or support for nested submenus. Writing those widgets would be difficult for me, so that's why the terminal version of Textadept doesn't have menus :(

The "Tools > Select Command" (Ctrl+P) dialog helps alleviate this to an extent though.

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Honest question: is it really that difficult to

1. Without even saving the text buffer currently on the screen, just violently print withut grace on the top of the screen "FILE" with "SAVE, LOAD and QUIT" below
2. Wait for the right hotkey and call the relative function
3. Just redraw/refresh the screen to show the editor to return to the working file

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I ask because it sounds like 10 lines of C code to my experience and it would make a huge difference in term of usability and initial learning curve.

(instead of hardcoding the menu it could be even easily possibile to use an external file which binds a new item of the menu to the relative function)

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It might not be difficult to do, but it is a hard-coded, half-baked, inflexible solution that defeats the purpose of Textadept. Using an external file adds an additional layer of complexity (and failure point) that would likely not be worth it.

Ctrl+P for now is the way to go through Textadept's menu in the terminal.

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You are 100% right I didn't know about CTRL-P.
I have only one simple legit question: why in the holy cult of the dead cow did you chose CTRL-P instead of ESC ? This menu would have been perfect if I only knew it existed

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