From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: mode-line tooltips for "[" and "]" in recursive-edit Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:46:51 -0700 Message-ID: <006301c88aa9$ffafda40$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> References: <200803201508.m2KF8C0S002150@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1206031754 19473 80.91.229.12 (20 Mar 2008 16:49:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:49:14 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Dan Nicolaescu'" , Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 20 17:49:42 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JcNxH-0002VJ-Gz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:49:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JcNwh-0008IA-8J for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:48:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JcNwc-0008Gx-3R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:48:46 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JcNwa-0008Di-40 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:48:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JcNwa-0008DX-0e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:48:44 -0400 Original-Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JcNwZ-000529-Gp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:48:43 -0400 Original-Received: from agmgw2.us.oracle.com (agmgw2.us.oracle.com [152.68.180.213]) by agminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id m2KGmei9009125; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:48:40 -0500 Original-Received: from acsmt350.oracle.com (acsmt350.oracle.com [141.146.40.150]) by agmgw2.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.0/Switch-3.2.0) with ESMTP id m2K24Qj4019077; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:48:40 -0600 Original-Received: from inet-141-146-46-1.oracle.com by acsmt350.oracle.com with ESMTP id 3620522241206031606; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:46:46 -0700 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/130.35.178.194) by bhmail.oracle.com (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:46:46 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <200803201508.m2KF8C0S002150@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> Thread-Index: AciKnIywwgn12tsFQDqaERUA/oAPSgADNxCg X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:93047 Archived-At: > It would be nice if [ and ] that appear in the mode-line in > recursive-edit had a tooltip explaining what they are. Such tooltips > will be helpful for beginners. > > Can someone please add the tooltips? Why do you suggest a change and then, in the same breath, ask someone to go ahead and install it? Isn't that jumping the gun a bit? I, for one, think this enhancement would be silly. Tooltips for the mode-line abound already. Users can read the doc for []. But my main remark is about your confounding a suggestion with its immediate implementation.