I've written a patchset to bring the menuless mode from Antohy's Nile [1] to 
Lola. Start in menuless mode with -m, it can also be toggled in the 13 lola 
menu, the patches are available at

shithub.us/penny/lola/HEAD/info.html

This patch enables creating windows by right click and sweeping the desktop, in 
windows middle click always plumbs and right click always sends. When in Nomenu 
mode, Lola will apply Nile's scrolling behavior to all windows. That is, 
windows will always autoscroll if you are at the bottom of the output, but will 
not if you are scrolled up.

In addition, Lola offers a system menu on mouse chord 1->3 and I have added a 
Nomenu option to this menu to allow toggling Nomenu mode at runtime.
No special accommodations were made for tabification, however on certain 
themes(including simple.c, and the patched win95.c in that repo) you may right 
click the title bar to yoink a window for tabification and I have found this 
more than suitable.
Changes were made to accommodate lola's system menu, the hidden window menu on 
the desktop has been moved to mouse 2, and includes the Delete and Hide verbs 
as I think it makes sense to make them available. The "menuless" notion only 
really applies to the windows themselves, and the creation thereof.

While this patchset is functionality a complete port of Nile's menuless mode to 
lola, Nile was based on 4th edition which does not offer "look", and therefore 
that functionality is not currently exposed in menuless operation. I am 
considering options for integrating it with these patches, including offering a 
keyboard combination.

Questions comments jeering bug reports and suggestions welcome

- Penny, aka, "panini"

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https://web.archive.org/web/20251119033354/http://a.9srv.net/src/nile/index.html
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