From: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs@cs.yale.edu>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Reducing mouse-dependency In Emacs.
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 12:50:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200308101650.h7AGovxS005131@rum.cs.yale.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200308100342.h7A3gXV19877@raven.dms.auburn.edu
> I propose to complement `mouse-face' and `help-echo' with two new text
> properties, `short-help' and `long-help', which would be strings or
> evaluate to strings.
Sounds like overengineering to me. It's already hard enough to
get people to add the `help-echo' property (additionally to docstrings,
comments, and the manual).
I think we only need some ways for those properties to be used/usable
without a mouse.
What you suggested sounds pretty good. We could also have a more noisy
option that always echos the help-echo property around point (after some
idle delay, of course). Or some other that hilights text with the
`mouse-face' face when point is inside.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-10 16:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-10 3:42 Reducing mouse-dependency In Emacs Luc Teirlinck
2003-08-10 6:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-08-10 14:53 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-08-11 12:53 ` Richard Stallman
2003-08-10 16:50 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2003-08-10 23:09 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-08-11 4:05 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-08-11 23:16 ` Richard Stallman
2003-08-11 6:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-08-11 15:52 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-08-11 17:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-08-11 14:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-08-12 2:30 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-08-12 6:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-08-12 16:08 ` Luc Teirlinck
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-08-12 1:29 Luc Teirlinck
2003-08-12 1:43 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-08-12 2:49 Luc Teirlinck
2003-08-13 5:36 Luc Teirlinck
2003-08-13 7:47 ` Miles Bader
2003-08-13 12:59 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-08-13 22:56 ` Nick Roberts
2003-08-14 0:35 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-08-14 1:42 ` Miles Bader
2003-08-14 1:04 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-08-13 14:32 ` Luc Teirlinck
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