From: Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu>
Cc: rudalics@gmx.at, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: "What's This?" in Describe submenu
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 23:56:06 -0500 (CDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200508230456.j7N4u6x14879@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ufyt1wbzi.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Tue, 23 Aug 2005 06:47:29 +0300)
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
See my reply to Stefan. And please try some more clicks with
"What's This?" to see that what it does is not really answer the
question "What's This?", but more like "What's This For?". This is
very close to what our describe-key does.
I believe there is some confusion here. One of the reasons why the
KDE (and I presume MS Windows) version of "What's this?" is very
different from `describe-key' is _because_ it answers the question
"What's This For?" if you click on something. If you click mouse-1 on
the minibuffer or fringe, the KDE user (and Lennart claimed the
Microsoft user too) would expect a tooltip telling what the
minibuffer/echo area or fringe are for. But `describe-key' tells you
what command mouse-1 is bound to at that particular place and gives
you some Elisp documentation about that command. These are two very
different things.
Sincerely,
Luc.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-23 4:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-21 8:21 "What's This?" in Describe submenu martin rudalics
2005-08-21 17:26 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-08-21 17:59 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-08-21 21:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-08-21 21:38 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-08-22 3:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-08-22 3:55 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-08-22 4:30 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-08-22 20:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-08-22 23:39 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-08-21 22:10 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-08-21 17:45 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-08-21 18:35 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-08-22 0:06 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-08-22 0:50 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-08-22 8:52 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-08-22 9:09 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-08-22 19:35 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-08-22 22:16 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-08-22 22:59 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-08-22 1:59 ` David Robinow
2005-08-22 3:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-08-22 7:17 ` Jason Rumney
2005-08-22 10:43 ` David Kastrup
2005-08-22 19:35 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-08-22 23:15 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-08-22 7:58 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-08-22 16:37 ` Drew Adams
2005-08-23 1:29 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-08-22 19:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-08-22 20:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-08-23 3:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-08-23 0:08 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-08-23 3:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-08-23 4:23 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-08-23 14:40 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-08-23 19:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-08-23 20:55 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-08-23 4:29 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-08-23 7:15 ` Jason Rumney
2005-08-23 14:37 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-08-23 4:40 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-08-23 19:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-08-23 20:56 ` Jason Rumney
2005-08-24 3:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-08-24 12:46 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-08-24 14:10 ` David Robinow
2005-08-24 18:51 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-08-25 10:42 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-08-23 4:56 ` Luc Teirlinck [this message]
2005-08-23 19:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-08-23 19:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-08-23 23:05 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-08-24 10:33 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-08-23 22:02 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-08-24 3:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-08-25 8:54 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-08-25 18:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-08-23 1:29 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-08-22 16:23 ` Drew Adams
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-08-23 14:08 Drew Adams
2005-08-23 14:31 ` David Kastrup
2005-08-23 19:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-08-23 20:53 ` Jason Rumney
2005-08-24 3:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-08-24 7:15 ` Jason Rumney
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