bug#3528: 23.0.94; feature request: Add mode-line tooltips for buffer position (% of) and (line, col)

bug#3528: 23.0.94; feature request: Add mode-line tooltips for buffer position (% of) and (line, col)

[Drew Adams]

We now have mouseover tooltips for most mode-line info.
Please add tooltips to explain the buffer position (12% of...) and the
line and column indicators.
 
We might also add a tooltip for the time, mentioning the timezone
info. or UTC delta.

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bug#3528: 23.0.94; feature request: Add mode-line tooltips for buffer position (% of)and (line, col)

[Drew Adams]

> We now have mouseover tooltips for most mode-line info.
> Please add tooltips to explain the buffer position (12% of...) and the
> line and column indicators.

I wasn't clear. We have such tooltips, but they are not very helpful. `Size
indication mode' is useless text. Say instead what this field is - how to
understand the text, and what happens if you click `mouse-1' here.

> We might also add a tooltip for the time, mentioning the timezone
> info. or UTC delta.

bug#3528: 23.0.94; feature request: Add mode-line tooltips for buffer position (% of)and (line, col)

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

>> We now have mouseover tooltips for most mode-line info.
>> Please add tooltips to explain the buffer position (12% of...) and the
>> line and column indicators.
>
> I wasn't clear. We have such tooltips, but they are not very helpful. `Size
> indication mode' is useless text. Say instead what this field is - how to
> understand the text, and what happens if you click `mouse-1' here.

The tooltips on the mode line seem to do that now, so I guess this has
been fixed sometime the past six years.

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