From: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
To: "Clément Pit-Claudel" <cpitclaudel@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Why does show_help_echo call substitute_command_keys?
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 16:10:40 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP_d_8VLTwcWdtCdU62FHOBkHZKe6uc-izoV01H9cJ8TwyO+Cw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b19b976e-d897-cd27-1a00-f618c8499ec7@gmail.com>
On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 4:01 PM, Clément Pit-Claudel
<cpitclaudel@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2017-07-21 10:48, Yuri Khan wrote:
>> Because the help-echo property is the Emacs API to tooltips, and
>> tooltips are expected to be able to display keyboard equivalents to
>> clicking the thing that is pointed?
>
> Ok. So we don't expect callers to explicitly use substitute-command-keys on their help-echo properties?
Imagine if it were so.
You add a button to the tool bar, with a help-echo property containing
tooltip text with command keys substituted at the time of addition.
The user rebinds the command to another key. Your button retains its
(now inaccurate) tooltip text.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-21 9:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-20 17:05 Why does show_help_echo call substitute_command_keys? Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-07-21 8:48 ` Yuri Khan
2017-07-21 9:01 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-07-21 9:10 ` Yuri Khan [this message]
2017-07-21 9:19 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-07-21 13:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-07-21 14:54 ` Drew Adams
2017-07-21 14:54 ` Drew Adams
2017-07-21 14:54 ` Drew Adams
2017-07-21 14:54 ` Drew Adams
2017-07-21 17:49 ` Yuri Khan
2017-07-21 17:54 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
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