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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: add a tooltip and a mouse binding to the VC mode-line entry
Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 09:04:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86lkdwps38.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1I5vmS-0001ir-Vu@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Tue\, 03 Jul 2007 23\:43\:52 -0400")

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

>     The VC item on  the mode-line is one of the very few that does not
>     have a tooltip nor does it have a mouse binding. 
>
> We can give it a mouse binding if there is something useful for that
> binding to do.  But is there anything that would be useful?

Offering to diff with some important points (recent checkins, major
branches, modified upstream) perhaps.

> There is no sense giving it a mouse binding just so it will have one
> if it isn't a useful and natural interface.
>
> If it doesn't have a mouse binding, it does not need a tooltip.

Disagreement here: the VC mode line indicators are concise, but
cryptic.  The difference between CVS-1.1 and CVS:1.1 is not clear to
many beginners.  A tooltip might help.

-- 
David Kastrup

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-04  7:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-03 17:11 add a tooltip and a mouse binding to the VC mode-line entry Dan Nicolaescu
2007-07-04  3:43 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-04  7:04   ` David Kastrup [this message]
2007-07-05  1:30     ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-04  9:47   ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-07-05 15:45   ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-07-05 17:13     ` Stefan Monnier
2007-07-06  5:06     ` Masatake YAMATO
2007-07-06 16:01       ` Stefan Monnier
2007-07-11 18:39         ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-07-09 17:48       ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-07-10  5:38         ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-04  6:06 ` Masatake YAMATO

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