From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nick Roberts Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Item for TODO? Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 00:09:39 +1300 Message-ID: <16882.13427.347927.500704@farnswood.snap.net.nz> References: <16880.39426.162103.127059@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <01c5005d$Blat.v2.4$9cc5e2a0@zahav.net.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1106393126 25072 80.91.229.6 (22 Jan 2005 11:25:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 11:25:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 22 12:25:19 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CsJOJ-0004DH-00 for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 12:25:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CsJaP-0007ZC-Br for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 06:37:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CsJZU-0007Fw-49 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 06:36:52 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CsJZP-0007Db-Rk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 06:36:50 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CsJZO-0007B6-NN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 06:36:46 -0500 Original-Received: from [202.37.101.8] (helo=viper.snap.net.nz) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CsJFz-0000Wu-0I; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 06:16:43 -0500 Original-Received: from farnswood.snap.net.nz (p142-tnt1.snap.net.nz [202.124.110.142]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EBD52635E0; Sun, 23 Jan 2005 00:16:41 +1300 (NZDT) Original-Received: by farnswood.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 501) id 16B35628AD; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 11:09:40 +0000 (GMT) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: <01c5005d$Blat.v2.4$9cc5e2a0@zahav.net.il> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 21.3.50.41 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:32485 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:32485 > > 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