From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
To: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: tooltips for minor modes
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 01:47:01 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200802190947.m1J9l1Vw020598@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86wsp1z3ok.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:38:35 +0100")
David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
> Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu> writes:
>
> > It would be nice if the mode-line :lighter for minor modes would have a
> > tooltip with a brief description of what the minor mode is.
> > Things like "Fly", "hs", "Fill" are not very explicit, providing a
> > tooltip would be very helpful for some users.
> >
> > Not sure what is the best way to provide a generic mechanism for doing this...
>
> Well a tooltip "minor mode" "minor mode help" is not really useful.
> Substituting the actual name of the mode in the tooltip would seem like
> an improvement.
Agreed, but it's still not even close to being good enough.
Something like "Minor mode: glasses-mode" gives close to zero useful
information if you are not familiar with the mode...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-19 9:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-19 8:20 tooltips for minor modes Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-19 9:38 ` David Kastrup
2008-02-19 9:47 ` Dan Nicolaescu [this message]
2008-02-19 23:10 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-20 4:01 ` Drew Adams
2008-02-21 9:19 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-21 9:37 ` Drew Adams
2008-02-21 22:29 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-21 23:10 ` Drew Adams
2008-02-22 2:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-22 19:19 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-22 22:56 ` Richard Stallman
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