From: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Item for TODO?
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 00:09:39 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <16882.13427.347927.500704@farnswood.snap.net.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01c5005d$Blat.v2.4$9cc5e2a0@zahav.net.il>
> > 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''.
What is a help-echo event?
On an xterm, if you move the mouse around no input characters are generated
for Emacs to read. It only knows where the mouse is when you click a
button. In between, I don't think it knows where the mouse is. How could
it then display a tooltip?
Nick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-22 11:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-21 5:58 Item for TODO? Nick Roberts
2005-01-21 15:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-01-21 16:42 ` John Paul Wallington
2005-01-22 8:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-01-22 11:09 ` Nick Roberts [this message]
2005-01-22 11:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-01-22 12:25 ` David Kastrup
2005-01-22 2:52 ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-22 7:42 ` Nick Roberts
2005-01-22 23:54 ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-23 0:35 ` Nick Roberts
2005-01-24 6:50 ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-23 10:53 ` David Kastrup
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