From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Item for TODO? Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 10:36:28 +0200 Message-ID: <01c5005d$Blat.v2.4$9cc5e2a0@zahav.net.il> References: <16880.39426.162103.127059@farnswood.snap.net.nz> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1106383708 6455 80.91.229.6 (22 Jan 2005 08:48:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 08:48:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: nickrob@snap.net.nz, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 22 09:48:18 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CsGwM-0006dO-00 for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 09:48:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CsH69-0004Pn-1c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 03:58:25 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CsH5C-0004Lk-Ip for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 03:57:26 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CsH59-0004KG-C7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 03:57:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CsH58-0004JV-PL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 03:57:22 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.66] (helo=romy.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CsGpK-0007Fp-95 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 03:41:02 -0500 Original-Received: from zaretski (IGLD-83-130-252-165.inter.net.il [83.130.252.165]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.5.6-GR) with ESMTP id AIT81863 (AUTH halo1); Sat, 22 Jan 2005 10:40:43 +0200 (IST) Original-To: Stefan Monnier X-Mailer: emacs 21.3.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 2.4 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Fri, 21 Jan 2005 10:55:27 -0500) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:32482 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:32482 > From: Stefan Monnier > Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 10:55:27 -0500 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > There's also been discussions to add support for tooltips, tho it's > not clear exactly what this should look like Emacs already has the machinery to support this: if show-help-function is nil (and it usually is on a tty), the tooltip text is shown in the echo area. The Windows port used that functionality before tooltip support was added to it, and the MS-DOS port still uses it. So the only thing that's missing is to make the tty mouse support package inject help-echo events into the Emacs keyboard queue. Everything else should ``just work''.