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From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@gnu.org>
To: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Introduce eldoc support in minibuffer
Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2011 18:47:45 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yxq39iob8q6.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wrg2ggdg.fsf@gmail.com> (Thierry Volpiatto's message of "Fri,  01 Jul 2011 17:39:07 +0200")

Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
> when editing code in minibuffer (M-:) eldoc is not available.
> This patch provide this feature.
> eldoc is displayed in mode-line.

Can the code that displays something in the modeline be used for something else?

It could be used as a (much more functional) tooltip.
For example C-s is great, but if one does not read the manual is hard to
know about all it can do.  If we could display little help messages it
would be easy to teach users about various nice features.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-07-02 22:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-01 15:39 Introduce eldoc support in minibuffer Thierry Volpiatto
2011-07-02 18:34 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-07-02 22:47 ` Dan Nicolaescu [this message]
2011-07-03  4:55   ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-07-03  6:03     ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-07-05 14:41     ` Dan Nicolaescu
2011-07-05 17:51       ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-07-06 15:25         ` Dan Nicolaescu

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