From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
Cc: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Menu help text not shown when using keyboard
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 09:05:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ur7abmjaq.fsf@jasonrumney.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1ETqhm-0003XL-Py@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard M. Stallman's message of "Sun, 23 Oct 2005 21:00:50 -0400")
"Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> If you are using the keyboard to navigate the menus then you currently
> get no information about the help text that are associated with the menu
> entries.
>
> Would you like to try to implement this? I think you need to find the
> right code in xmenu.c, and make it call show_help_echo.
The menu selection code is called asynchronously (at least on
Windows). So calling show_help_echo directly is not possible. You have
to call kbd_buffer_store_help_event (frame, help), and somehow arrange
for it to use the minibuffer rather than popping up a tooltip at the
mouse position.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-24 8:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-23 13:10 Menu help text not shown when using keyboard Lennart Borgman
2005-10-23 16:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-10-23 17:17 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-10-23 22:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-10-23 23:04 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-10-23 23:48 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-10-24 8:01 ` Jason Rumney
2005-10-24 9:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-10-24 1:00 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-24 8:05 ` Jason Rumney [this message]
2005-10-24 11:48 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-10-24 13:42 ` Jason Rumney
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2005-10-24 9:58 LENNART BORGMAN
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