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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
Cc: christopher@librehacker.com, 74673@debbugs.gnu.org,
	kevin.legouguec@gmail.com
Subject: bug#74673: 30.0.92; face warning on legal elisp syntax
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2024 11:53:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <867c8exxpa.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87cyi6cwbs.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Robert Pluim on Thu, 05 Dec 2024 10:28:55 +0100)

> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
> Cc: Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legouguec@gmail.com>,
>   christopher@librehacker.com,  74673@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2024 10:28:55 +0100
> 
> >>>>> On Wed, 04 Dec 2024 19:32:54 +0200, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> said:
> 
>     >> From: Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legouguec@gmail.com>
>     >> Cc: Christopher Howard <christopher@librehacker.com>,  74673@debbugs.gnu.org
>     >> Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2024 18:12:06 +0100
>     >> 
>     >> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>     >> 
>     >> > Some nice features of the UI need the mouse, yes, and there's no
>     >> > (easy) way around that.  That said, you can go to the "" part and type
>     >> > "M-x describe-text-properties", which will pop a buffer that tells you
>     >> > there's a help-echo property at that spot, and show a button which you
>     >> > could press to have the text shown in the echo-area.
>     >> >
>     >> > If you really need to be able to show tool tips without the mouse, you
>     >> > can write a simple function to show its text in the echo-area.
>     >> > However, most tooltips are shown on UI parts where you cannot go, so
>     >> > such a command will be of somewhat limited use.
>     >> 
>     >> Apologies if I missed something: this specific diagnostic is also
>     >> visible with 'C-h .', right?
> 
>     Eli> Yes.
> 
> You could do something like this to economise on typing:
> 
> (defun display-help-string ()
>     (when-let* ((help (help-at-pt-kbd-string)))
>       (message "%s" (substitute-command-keys help))))
> (add-hook 'post-command-hook #'display-help-string nil t)
> 
> (hmm, would it make sense to add something like that to eldoc?)

Given that we already have help-at-pt-display-when-idle, why is
anything else needed?





  reply	other threads:[~2024-12-05  9:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-12-03 18:49 bug#74673: 30.0.92; face warning on legal elisp syntax Christopher Howard
2024-12-03 19:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-12-03 19:19   ` Christopher Howard
2024-12-03 19:38     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-12-03 20:48       ` Christopher Howard
2024-12-04 12:23         ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-12-04 17:12           ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2024-12-04 17:32             ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-12-05  9:28               ` Robert Pluim
2024-12-05  9:53                 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-12-05 10:06                   ` Robert Pluim
2024-12-04 17:51           ` Jim Porter
2024-12-04 18:55             ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-12-06  4:46         ` Richard Stallman
2024-12-06  8:26           ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-12-04 15:42 ` Christopher Howard

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