Subj : Synchronet menu system
To   : Winzlo
From : Digital Man
Date : Mon Jul 20 2026 18:14:12

  Re: Synchronet menu system
  By: Winzlo to Digital Man on Mon Jul 20 2026 04:34 pm

 >   Re: Synchronet menu system
 >   By: Digital Man to Winzlo on Mon Jul 20 2026 11:24 am
 >
 >  DM> People have created menu editors for Synchronet in the past, including
 >  DM> me, and it turns out nobody uses them because they're too limiting. If
 >  DM> you look at a modern command shell (e.g. exec/default.js), it's pretty
 >  DM> obvious how to change it and there are no limitations on where you can
 >  DM> go from there. By contrast, any menu editor will have to have a limited
 >  DM> number of actions or verbs and supported syntax.
 >
 > Totaly agree - canned menus can be nice, but they need to be customizable
 > afterwards to fit the "personality" of the BBS.  meunedit.js should put me
 > closer to having a workable replacement menu than if I were to try and alter
 > an existing shell's command handler, screens, etc.

The output of menuedit is not a script that you can then go an easily customize later by hand. It just outputs a JSON data file that's parsed by another script.

 > As said, coming from the
 > world of systems where there is 0 actual development work to set up a menu
 > system, this is a fairly moderate learning curve for something that is
 > critical to the operational flow of tthe BBS.

Have you looked at default.js? I wouldn't consider editing the tables of commands in that file that to be "development work". I hope menuedit.js does what you're looking for. I think you'll be the first, if it is. :-)
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