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: tooltips for minor modes Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:01:01 -0500 Message-ID: References: <200802190820.m1J8Knbo007894@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <008401c87375$351efbd0$0600a8c0@us.oracle.com> <200802210919.m1L9J1gi006108@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <00be01c874df$02c20d60$0600a8c0@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1203645683 4339 80.91.229.12 (22 Feb 2008 02:01:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 02:01:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 'Dan Nicolaescu' , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 22 03:01:47 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JSNEQ-00057e-PE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 03:01:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JSNDv-00073u-Ji for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:01:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JSNDp-0006yY-2E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:01:09 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JSNDm-0006uW-VS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:01:08 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JSNDm-0006u6-Lq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:01:06 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JSNDi-0003wz-SL; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:01:03 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAADK7vUfO+J2cdGdsb2JhbACQXwEwoFaBAg X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,388,1199682000"; d="scan'208";a="14829666" Original-Received: from smtp.pppoe.ca ([65.39.196.238]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 21 Feb 2008 21:01:02 -0500 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([206.248.157.156]) by smtp.pppoe.ca (Internet Mail Server v1.0) with ESMTP id CEX03502; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:01:02 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id A78F48A37; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:01:01 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <00be01c874df$02c20d60$0600a8c0@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:10:52 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:89906 Archived-At: > 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