From: Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 52994@debbugs.gnu.org, "Daniel Martín" <mardani29@yahoo.es>
Subject: bug#52994: 29.0.50; Help descriptions from menu bar items don't appear in the echo area
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2022 11:11:50 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <F25D3000-CD77-4386-82C6-F05ECF94BF19@idiocy.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o8463e72.fsf@gnus.org>
On 20 January 2022 10:16:01 GMT, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
>Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org> writes:
>
>> I was under the impression that the help text appears in a tooltip. We
>> had a recent bug report where the wrong text was sometimes appearing
>> in the tooltip, but that should be fixed now, at least on master.
>>
>> I'd be surprised if there's no tooltip at all or the tooltip is empty,
>> it's a function provided by the toolkit.
>
>Do you mean on Macos or Debian? In Macos, I'm getting no tooltips when
>using the menu. (And I'd be surprised to be getting them, really,
>because the Macos menus are separated from the Emacs frame.)
Oh, sorry, I totally misread this and thought it was about the toolbar.
You're right, I don't expect tooltips to appear for menu items and I'm not sure whether it's even possible to update the Emacs frame while the menus are open.
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2022-01-04 0:10 ` bug#52994: 29.0.50; Help descriptions from menu bar items don't appear in the echo area Daniel Martín via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-01-14 8:39 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-15 12:37 ` Alan Third
2022-01-20 10:16 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-20 11:11 ` Alan Third [this message]
2022-01-20 11:14 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-20 11:41 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-01-22 11:28 ` Alan Third
2022-01-22 11:42 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-01-22 11:48 ` Alan Third
2022-01-22 12:27 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-01-22 13:50 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-01-20 13:20 ` Daniel Martín via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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