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From: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>
To: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Introduce eldoc support in minibuffer
Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2011 06:55:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hb743quv.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yxq39iob8q6.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Dan Nicolaescu's message of "Sat, 02 Jul 2011 18:47:45 -0400")

Dan Nicolaescu <dann@gnu.org> writes:

> Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>> when editing code in minibuffer (M-:) eldoc is not available.
>> This patch provide this feature.
>> eldoc is displayed in mode-line.
>
> Can the code that displays something in the modeline be used for something else?
Yes, try (eldoc-show-in-mode-line "foo")

> It could be used as a (much more functional) tooltip.
> For example C-s is great, but if one does not read the manual is hard to
> know about all it can do.  If we could display little help messages it
> would be easy to teach users about various nice features.
I don't use isearch, so i don't know what to display in mode-line, but i
imagine you can display something useful in mode-line, like a minimal
help depending of the context of your search.
I already use that in some places in ioccur and anything.
You can also in addition of a minimal help in mode-line display a
_full window_ with all the binding of isearch but without quitting isearch
like C-h m does actually.
It's not hard to do, just create a help function for isearch and bind it
in isearch map.

For example:
Try M-x anything-buffer+ then C-c ? to see what i mean.

-- 
A+ Thierry
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-03  4:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-01 15:39 Introduce eldoc support in minibuffer Thierry Volpiatto
2011-07-02 18:34 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-07-02 22:47 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2011-07-03  4:55   ` Thierry Volpiatto [this message]
2011-07-03  6:03     ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-07-05 14:41     ` Dan Nicolaescu
2011-07-05 17:51       ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-07-06 15:25         ` Dan Nicolaescu

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