From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Better default values for tooltip padding and `tooltip-hide-delay'? Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 15:47:16 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1128455499 6120 80.91.229.2 (4 Oct 2005 19:51:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 19:51:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 04 21:51:38 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EMsmu-00024P-Ez for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2005 21:49:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EMsmt-0004CZ-V9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2005 15:49:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EMslx-0003kE-A9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2005 15:48:24 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EMslm-0003fg-KS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2005 15:48:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EMslm-0003fP-HM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2005 15:48:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [132.204.24.67] (helo=mercure.iro.umontreal.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EMsl2-0001Rp-Pu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2005 15:47:24 -0400 Original-Received: from hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.50]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7A9E2CF5D4; Tue, 4 Oct 2005 15:47:22 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from asado.iro.umontreal.ca (asado.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.24.84]) by hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A2F44AC00A; Tue, 4 Oct 2005 15:47:17 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by asado.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id E314E4A71; Tue, 4 Oct 2005 15:47:16 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: cs-usenet@arcor.de In-Reply-To: (Christian Schlauer's message of "Tue, 04 Oct 2005 20:35:55 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-4.848, requis 5, autolearn=not spam, AWL 0.05, BAYES_00 -4.90) X-MailScanner-From: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca 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:43546 Archived-At: >> (it seems more common for people to use packages like avoid.el to >> move the mouse cursor out of sight). Obviously in such a case >> tooltips are really annoying. Have you tried M-x tooltip-mode RET ? > I think tooltip-mode is nice most of the time, so I haven't tried > that. I'd have to turn tooltip-mode off only in ediff-mode-hook, I > think. I have it turned off and am quite happy with it: the help-echo message is still present if I need it, but displayed in the echo area where it doesn't bother me when I don't need it. > But in ediff, what are these "Difference region 1 -- non-current" and > "Difference region 1 -- current" tooltips trying to tell me, anyway? Ah, I didn't know about that (I always have my mouse pointer in the small ediff frame because I use focus-follows-mouse), but the way you describe it, it does seem to be of dubious value indeed. But that doesn't mean that tooltips shouldn't also be improved so as to be less bothersome in such cases. Stefan