From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: tooltips for minor modes Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:38:35 +0100 Message-ID: <86wsp1z3ok.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> References: <200802190820.m1J8Knbo007894@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1203413937 30743 80.91.229.12 (19 Feb 2008 09:38:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:38:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dan Nicolaescu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 19 10:39:21 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JROwa-00067y-0v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:39:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JROw5-000798-91 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 04:38:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JROvx-00077j-Vd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 04:38:42 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JROvw-00077D-B0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 04:38:41 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JROvv-000778-Uo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 04:38:40 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.quinscape.de ([212.29.44.217]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JROvv-000808-EA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 04:38:39 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail-ldap/ctrl 15413 invoked from network); 19 Feb 2008 09:38:36 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO lola.quinscape.zz) ([10.0.3.43]) (envelope-sender ) by ns.quinscape.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 19 Feb 2008 09:38:36 -0000 Original-Received: by lola.quinscape.zz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 50F098FA9E; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:38:34 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <200802190820.m1J8Knbo007894@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> (Dan Nicolaescu's message of "Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:20:48 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-AntiVirus: checked by AntiVir MailGate (version: 2.1.3-2; AVE: 7.6.0.67; VDF: 7.0.2.156; host: quinx) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:89554 Archived-At: Dan Nicolaescu 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. -- David Kastrup