From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Nested display strings
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:45:17 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvhb9jnr3n.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83r58o99zc.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 26 Apr 2011 20:51:51 +0300")
>> A good/natural way for redisplay to signal such problems would be to
>> display them directly in the window (e.g. insert some threatening
>> question mark or some such, ideally with mouse-over highlighting and
>> a help-echo-like text explaining the problem).
> Now, _that_ is what I call "obnoxious".
I have no idea why you'd find it obnoxious. After all, that's pretty
much what we do for "chars we don't know how to draw", except we put
a square box rather than a threatening question mark and we don't bother
with the help-echo and mouse highlight.
Admittedly, the mouse-highlight is probably not a good idea, but the
rest sounds really like the ideal solution to me.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-28 0:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-23 16:44 Nested display strings Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-23 19:42 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-04-23 20:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-23 20:31 ` Drew Adams
2011-04-23 22:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-23 23:20 ` Drew Adams
2011-04-24 6:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-24 5:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-24 17:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-25 12:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-25 13:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-25 14:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-25 19:03 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-04-25 19:41 ` Chong Yidong
2011-04-25 19:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-26 18:04 ` Chong Yidong
2011-04-26 18:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-26 12:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-26 17:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-26 18:13 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-04-26 18:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-26 18:35 ` chad
2011-04-26 18:50 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-04-26 19:19 ` Drew Adams
2011-04-28 0:45 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2011-04-28 16:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-28 18:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-26 20:51 ` Chong Yidong
2011-04-27 0:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-26 14:46 ` Richard Stallman
2011-04-24 5:19 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2011-04-24 6:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-24 6:22 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2011-04-24 6:31 ` Andreas Röhler
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