From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Christian Schlauer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Better default values for tooltip padding and `tooltip-hide-delay'? Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 19:30:36 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87fyr77paq.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <200510112320.j9BNKDn09363@raven.dms.auburn.edu> Reply-To: cs-usenet@arcor.de NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1129916293 15924 80.91.229.2 (21 Oct 2005 17:38:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 17:38:13 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 21 19:38:10 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ET0nV-0008Fy-0K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 19:35:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ET0nU-0008DC-Dz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 13:35:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ET0nE-0008B8-Ct for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 13:35:00 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ET0nC-0008Aw-Sv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 13:35:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ET0nC-0008At-OF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 13:34:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1ET0nC-0005J0-Lj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 13:34:59 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1ET0ko-0006yH-Un for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 19:32:30 +0200 Original-Received: from chrsc2.ikp.liu.se ([130.236.36.138]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 19:32:30 +0200 Original-Received: from cs-usenet by chrsc2.ikp.liu.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 19:32:30 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: chrsc2.ikp.liu.se User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (windows-nt) 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:44520 Archived-At: "Richard M. Stallman" writes: > I don't agree. Only in Ediff-mode they are annoying, otherwise I find > them just too big ;-) > > If a substantial number of people find them annoying on the text > in Ediff mode, we could do a number of things: > > 1. Eliminate the help-echo properties on parts of diff hunks in > Ediff mode. > > 2. Set it up so that they only appear for the first 4 times > that the mouse is above such text in any given Ediff mode buffer. > (That way, they would be helpful, but once the user has seen > them a few times, they will get out of the way.) > > #2 would require some C code, but it won't be very hard C code, so > that is not a major reason not to do this. I would prefer the first solution, as I think that the meaning of the font locking is quite obvious. I wouldn't want to see them the first 4 times each time I use ediff (if I understood you correctly) -- then I would want to turn off tooltip-mode in ediff-mode only. -- Christian Schlauer