From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 'Dan Nicolaescu' <dann@ics.uci.edu>, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: tooltips for minor modes
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:01:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvejb5rbqj.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00be01c874df$02c20d60$0600a8c0@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:10:52 -0800")
> That sounds a bit artificial to me. The doc string needs also to be readable
> on its own. I'm not sure it's good to press doc-string parts into doing
> double duty.
> I would opt for a :help keyword or just forget about the tooltip.
Agreed.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-22 2:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-19 8:20 tooltips for minor modes Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-19 9:38 ` David Kastrup
2008-02-19 9:47 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-19 23:10 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-20 4:01 ` Drew Adams
2008-02-21 9:19 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-21 9:37 ` Drew Adams
2008-02-21 22:29 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-21 23:10 ` Drew Adams
2008-02-22 2:01 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2008-02-22 19:19 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-22 22:56 ` Richard Stallman
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