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<h3 class="section">5.2 Changing Menus</h3>
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<p><code>ne</code> allows you to change the contents of its menus. To
accomplish this task, you have to create a file named <samp>.menus</samp> in your
home directory, or in <samp>~/.ne</samp>. You can change the default name
(possibly specifying a complete path) using the <code>--menus</code> argument
(see <a href="Arguments.html#Arguments">Arguments</a>).
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<p>Each line of a menu configuration file not starting with the &lsquo;<samp>MENU</samp>&rsquo; or
&lsquo;<samp>ITEM</samp>&rsquo; keywords is considered a comment. You should describe the menus
as in the following example:
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<pre class="example">MENU &quot;File&quot;
ITEM &quot;Open...     ^O&quot; Open
ITEM &quot;Close         &quot; Close
ITEM &quot;DoIt          &quot; Macro DoIt
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<p>In other words: a line of this form
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<pre class="example">MENU &quot;<var>title</var>&quot;
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<p>will start the definition of a new menu, having the given title. Each line
of the form
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<pre class="example">ITEM &quot;<var>text</var>&quot; <var>command</var>
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<p>will then define a menu item, and associate the given command to it.
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<p>Any number of menus can be accommodated, but you should consider that many
terminals are 80 columns wide. There is also a minor restriction on the
items&mdash;their width has to be constant throughout each menu (but different
menus can have different widths). Note that the text of an item, as the name of
a menu, is between quotes. Whatever follows the last quote is considered the
command associated to the menu.
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<p><strong>Warning:</strong> the description of key bindings in menus
(&lsquo;<samp>^O</samp>&rsquo; in the previous example) is very important for the beginner;
there is no relation inside <code>ne</code> about what you say in the menu and how
you configure the key bindings (see <a href="Key-Bindings.html#Key-Bindings">Key Bindings</a>). Please do not say
things in the menus that are not true in the key binding file.
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<p>The menu configuration file is parsed at startup. If something does not
work, <code>ne</code> exits displaying an error message. If you want <code>ne</code> to
skip the menu configuration phase (for instance, to correct the
broken file), just give <code>ne</code> the <code>--no-config</code> argument.
See <a href="Arguments.html#Arguments">Arguments</a>.
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