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Menu File Edit
This command is used to create and maintain user-defined
menus, which you access with the F2 key (or User menu command
in the Files menu):
+--- User Menu ---+
| A Command 1 |
| F Command 2 |
| Command 3 |
+-----------------+
.
+--- Hot-key
User-defined menus can be created either by using the
Commander input screens or with a text editor.
Creating Menus with Commander
Pressing F6 on Insert will bring up the User menu input box.
You are first asked whether you want to insert a Menu or a
Command. Simply select the one you require.
Inserting Commands
To enter a command, simply enter the Hot key you require
for this command, then a Label to show on the menus and
finally the command itself.
You may have multiple commands, and each can be entered in
turn in the input box. These are executed just like batch
files. When user menus are invoked with F2, you can use
your Hot Key to quickly invoke your command.
Inserting Menus
Menus are entered exactly the same way as Commands.
You simply enter a Hot Key and a Label for the menu.
Menus are displayed as follows
+--- User Menu (Main) ---+
| M My Menu . |
+------------------------+
Menus can contain multiple commands, so if you have say
two word-processors you can set up a Word-processor menu
which contains the commands to run both. When the menu
is executed you will be able to select which one to use.
To enter commands into a menu press Enter on the menu
title, or select the Menus Hot key. The sub-menu will
then be displayed. You can insert commands into this in
the standard way as described above.
Creating Menus with an Editor
User-defined menus are like batch files, but you can give
each "batch file" a long name.
The following file was used to create the menu above:
+Edit: C:\progs\nc\nc.mnu +
|a: Command 1 |
| DOS command |
| another DOS command |
|f: Command 2 |
| a command |
|Command 3 |
| ... |
+-----------------------------------------+
.
+--- First column in the Editor.
Menu titles start with a hot key (optional) followed by the
title you want to see in the pop-up menu. The DOS commands
are indented.
Notes:
. There are two types of user menus: Main and Local.
The main user menu is stored in the same directory as
the Norton Commander (or the directory given by the NC
environment variable ). The local user menu is a user
menu in the current directory.
This allows you to have a number of user-
defined menus, however most people just use the main
menu.
. If you use F1 in a user menu, it will run that menu
item rather than bring up the on-line help.
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