From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "Yuri Khan" <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>,
"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 07:54:56 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <df88c67c-26bc-4ce1-ab72-8f667e573f48@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP_d_8VLTwcWdtCdU62FHOBkHZKe6uc-izoV01H9cJ8TwyO+Cw@mail.gmail.com>
> > 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.
Which just means that your code isn't good enough.
If you hard-code a `help-echo' property to ANYTHING and some
later changes make that value no longer appropriate...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-21 14:54 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
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 [this message]
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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