From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: jasonr@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: tooltip-use-echo-area disappeared
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 13:16:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u7jgr29ul.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17075.56185.519668.760489@farnswood.snap.net.nz> (message from Nick Roberts on Sat, 18 Jun 2005 20:29:45 +1200)
> From: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
> Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 20:29:45 +1200
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, jasonr@gnu.org
>
> Eli Zaretskii writes:
> > IMHO, we should rather implement the functionality that somehow isn't
> > there (although I could probably swear I've seen it in action, at
> > least in NTEmacs circa 21.1) which allows the user to select one of 3
> > behaviors:
> >
> > (1) tooltips popping up in small windows
> > (2) tooltip text displayed in the echo area
> > (3) tooltips completely disabled
> >
> > (1) should be (and is) the default on graphical displays, (2) should
> > be the default on character terminals.
>
> Features like tooltips and mouse-face don't work on a character terminal
> because currently Emacs doesn't know where the mouse is between clicks.
True for Unix tty's (the MS-DOS port uses a character terminal, and
does support tooltips and mouse-face). But I hope that we will have
this implemented in the future.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-18 11:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-02 8:09 tooltip-use-echo-area disappeared Jason Rumney
2005-06-02 9:25 ` Nick Roberts
2005-06-02 12:24 ` jasonr
2005-06-02 13:00 ` Nick Roberts
2005-06-13 12:38 ` Jason Rumney
2005-06-13 14:17 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-06-13 21:03 ` Nick Roberts
2005-06-13 21:54 ` Jason Rumney
2005-06-14 1:11 ` Nick Roberts
2005-06-14 4:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-06-14 4:30 ` Nick Roberts
2005-06-14 21:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-06-14 21:33 ` Nick Roberts
2005-06-15 3:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-06-16 4:06 ` Richard Stallman
2005-06-16 9:16 ` Nick Roberts
2005-06-17 4:38 ` Richard Stallman
2005-06-17 5:07 ` Nick Roberts
2005-06-17 10:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-06-18 8:29 ` Nick Roberts
2005-06-18 11:16 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2005-06-17 18:45 ` Richard Stallman
2005-06-18 8:42 ` Nick Roberts
2005-06-19 3:51 ` Richard Stallman
2005-06-19 4:50 ` Nick Roberts
2005-06-16 6:48 ` Jason Rumney
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