From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: display value of links in mini-buffer (was: Re: bug archiving policy) Date: Sun, 06 Dec 2020 13:26:01 +0200 Message-ID: <83360jb2gm.fsf@gnu.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="27631"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: boruch_baum@gmx.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Yuri Khan Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 06 12:36:27 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1klsL4-00075K-Ib for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 06 Dec 2020 12:36:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52110 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1klsL3-0000OV-ER for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 06 Dec 2020 06:36:25 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60074) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1klsBE-0005HJ-DS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Dec 2020 06:26:16 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:35937) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1klsBE-0007ez-3S; Sun, 06 Dec 2020 06:26:16 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4750 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1klsBC-0005LN-Cu; Sun, 06 Dec 2020 06:26:15 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Yuri Khan on Sun, 6 Dec 2020 17:54:40 +0700) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:260428 Archived-At: > From: Yuri Khan > Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2020 17:54:40 +0700 > Cc: Emacs-Devel List > > However, some modes also put 'help-echo property over text in a > buffer: buttons and links in Customize, links in Info, links in Eww, > diagnostics in Flymake. All of them would benefit from the behavior > you’re asking of Org: display tooltip text in the echo area when point > enters text so propertized. > > There is a command ‘display-local-help’, bound to ‘ .’, that can > be called manually. It would be nice to have a minor mode that would > basically invoke that whenever the point moves. > > Basically, instead of bickering about Org maintainers not wanting to > track Org feature requests in the Emacs bug tracker, I propose that we > extend the scope of the request so that it becomes a genuine Emacs > feature request. We already have the kbd-help property (display-local-help supports it); would that fit the bill?