From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Introduce eldoc support in minibuffer Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2011 18:47:45 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87wrg2ggdg.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1309646891 26936 80.91.229.12 (2 Jul 2011 22:48:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 22:48:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Thierry Volpiatto Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 03 00:48:07 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qd8yt-0003lO-86 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2011 00:48:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60382 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qd8ys-0001v6-Gs for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Jul 2011 18:48:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:37782) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qd8yZ-0001ue-PN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jul 2011 18:47:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qd8yY-000711-Gh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jul 2011 18:47:47 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:58456) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qd8yX-00070w-U1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jul 2011 18:47:46 -0400 Original-Received: from dann by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qd8yX-00085w-Il; Sat, 02 Jul 2011 18:47:45 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87wrg2ggdg.fsf@gmail.com> (Thierry Volpiatto's message of "Fri, 01 Jul 2011 17:39:07 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:141473 Archived-At: Thierry Volpiatto 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.