From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@elta.co.il>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Reducing mouse-dependency In Emacs.
Date: 10 Aug 2003 08:08:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uu18q11vh.fsf@elta.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200308100342.h7A3gXV19877@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (message from Luc Teirlinck on Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:42:33 -0500 (CDT))
> Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:42:33 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu>
>
> Text properties like `mouse-face' and `help-echo' are, as presently
> conceived, not only completely useless to the blind, but to any
> non mouse oriented user.
True.
> I propose to complement `mouse-face' and `help-echo' with two new text
> properties, `short-help' and `long-help', which would be strings or
> evaluate to strings.
Rather than introducing new properties, I'd think it's better to have
an option to display the text defined thru mouse-face and help-echo
when point is anywhere inside the text covered by those properties.
Or am I missing some of your intent?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-10 6:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-10 3:42 Reducing mouse-dependency In Emacs Luc Teirlinck
2003-08-10 6:08 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2003-08-10 14:53 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-08-11 12:53 ` Richard Stallman
2003-08-10 16:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-08-10 23:09 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-08-11 4:05 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-08-11 23:16 ` Richard Stallman
2003-08-11 6:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-08-11 15:52 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-08-11 17:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-08-11 14:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-08-12 2:30 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-08-12 6:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-08-12 16:08 ` Luc Teirlinck
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-08-12 1:29 Luc Teirlinck
2003-08-12 1:43 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-08-12 2:49 Luc Teirlinck
2003-08-13 5:36 Luc Teirlinck
2003-08-13 7:47 ` Miles Bader
2003-08-13 12:59 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-08-13 22:56 ` Nick Roberts
2003-08-14 0:35 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-08-14 1:42 ` Miles Bader
2003-08-14 1:04 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-08-13 14:32 ` Luc Teirlinck
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