From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs 23, Python, epylint, pylint Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:02:25 +0100 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: <87ljj29vo0.wl%anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com> <87ws2ahww9.fsf@liv.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1257167108 19577 80.91.229.12 (2 Nov 2009 13:05:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 13:05:08 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 02 14:05:01 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1N4waf-0005eh-Tz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:04:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57378 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N4waf-0003zu-Ar for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:04:57 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N4wYv-0003kQ-Lt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:03:10 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N4wYh-0003gl-Ne for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:03:04 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=60054 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N4wYg-0003gI-EZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:02:54 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:35716) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N4wYe-0003AD-Ms for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:02:52 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1N4wYb-0004mi-Mk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:02:49 +0100 Original-Received: from 85.183.18.158 ([85.183.18.158]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:02:49 +0100 Original-Received: from rileyrgdev by 85.183.18.158 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:02:49 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 50 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.183.18.158 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:69393 Archived-At: Dave Love writes: > Richard Riley writes: > >> A more careful read of the flymake wiki page >> >> Http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/FlyMake >> >> Provided the answer: >> >> http://paste.lisp.org/display/60617 > > [Gross code elided.] > > What's wrong with just adding this to `post-command-hook'? > > (defun my-flymake-show-help () > (when (get-char-property (point) 'flymake-overlay) > (let ((help (get-char-property (point) 'help-echo))) > (if help (message "%s" help))))) I have no idea. The other code works and was linked on the wiki. Maybe your code could replace it? > (It would be better if overlays supported the `point-entered' property.) > >> (I think this should be default behaviour as most Emacs users balk from >> using the mouse :-;) > > [I'm surprised if that's the case and if anyone actually knows.] > Well, the mouse usage being mandatory was the default and is not really "emacs" thinking IMO : hence the wiki had the fix/workaround. FWIW, I would hazard a guess that most emacs users tend not to be mouse wielders in the main .. too many of our hands are already required :-; Thanks for the reply and I will try code above : it certainly looks to be short and sweet. If it does the job I'll add it to the wiki if thats ok. regards r.