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From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 7691@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#7691: 24.0.50; x-popup-menu with keymap - :help keyword
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 07:05:54 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878vzkhwod.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv1v5crsr6.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:22:33 -0500")

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> But put the pointer over item `Foo' in the menu and you will not see the
>> :help displayed.  This is true also if `tooltip-mode' is off (the help
>> does not show in the minibuffer/echo area).
>
> Looks like a bug, indeed.  Might be a very longstanding one.
> It's probably some missing code somewhere.


IIRC it is not possible to display tooltips while popup menus are
displayed on Windows, as creating the tooltip involves Windows messages
to the same thread that the popup menu is blocking. But the help message
should be displayed in the minibuffer.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-12-20 23:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-20 21:12 bug#7691: 24.0.50; x-popup-menu with keymap - :help keyword Drew Adams
2010-12-20 21:30 ` Drew Adams
2010-12-20 22:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-12-20 22:41   ` Drew Adams
2010-12-20 23:05   ` Jason Rumney [this message]
2010-12-20 23:17     ` Drew Adams
2010-12-21  2:11       ` Lennart Borgman
2010-12-21  3:32         ` Jason Rumney
2010-12-21 11:06 ` grischka
2016-04-28  9:50 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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