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From: "Clément Pit-Claudel" <cpitclaudel@gmail.com>
To: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@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 11:01:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b19b976e-d897-cd27-1a00-f618c8499ec7@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP_d_8X2H0tb6JVST9=_hUfQtJ9iLU7b31gVycXu9Nt6xL_2Fw@mail.gmail.com>

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?

> There should probably be a function that knows when and how to quote
> the characters that cause such substitution with \=.

Yes, it would be nice.  Maybe there already is one and I missed it.



  reply	other threads:[~2017-07-21  9:01 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 [this message]
2017-07-21  9:10     ` Yuri Khan
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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