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From: "Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 'Juri Linkov' <juri@jurta.org>,
	'Nick Roberts' <nickrob@snap.net.nz>,
	"'Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)'" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: mode-line tooltips for "[" and "]" in recursive-edit
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:29:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47FE7897.6040302@swipnet.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <008c01c89b26$7bf38ac0$c2b22382@us.oracle.com>



Drew Adams skrev:
>> Basically it takes the multiline tool tip and join lines to a 
>> single line until no more lines can be added without exceeding
>> the frame width.
>>
>> The idea is that if you are sofisticated enough to disable 
>> tool tips, you either know what they say or don't care that
>> much.
> 
> Don't be silly. Disabling tooltip-mode implies nothing about not wanting to see
> the tooltip help.

It does for me.

> 
> If the idea was that people disabling the popup window don't want to see the
> help at all, then the behavior would not be to show the help in the minibuffer.
> 
>> But the main thing is to avoid minibuffer expansion and shrinkage.
> 
> Why is that the main thing? Why is that even a goal?
> 

Because Emacs didn't do that before people started adding long multiline 
tooltips.  Because it is annoying.  If you donät like it, implement something 
that satisfies everybody,

	Jan D.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-04-10 20:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-20 15:08 mode-line tooltips for "[" and "]" in recursive-edit Dan Nicolaescu
2008-03-20 16:46 ` Drew Adams
2008-03-20 17:04   ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-03-20 17:26     ` Drew Adams
2008-03-20 17:42       ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-03-21  7:07       ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-03-21 14:28         ` Drew Adams
2008-03-21 17:45           ` [OT] Mail-Followup-To, Outlook (was: mode-line tooltips for "[" and "]" in recursive-edit) Reiner Steib
2008-03-21 18:42             ` Drew Adams
2008-03-21 19:45               ` [OT] Mail-Followup-To, Outlook Reiner Steib
2008-03-22  1:02               ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-21 18:36           ` mode-line tooltips for "[" and "]" in recursive-edit Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-03-21 18:22         ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-03-21 19:11           ` Mail-Followup-To (was: mode-line tooltips for "[" and "]" in recursive-edit) Reiner Steib
2008-03-21 23:22             ` Mail-Followup-To Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-03-21 23:51               ` Mail-Followup-To Reiner Steib
2008-03-21  8:38     ` mode-line tooltips for "[" and "]" in recursive-edit Jan Djärv
2008-03-21 21:47       ` Nick Roberts
2008-03-21 22:03         ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-03-21 22:10           ` Nick Roberts
2008-03-22  1:29             ` Juri Linkov
2008-04-09  9:38               ` Jan Djärv
2008-04-10  6:20                 ` Nick Roberts
2008-04-10  7:27                   ` Jan Djärv
2008-04-10  8:38                     ` Nick Roberts
2008-04-10  9:06                       ` Jan Djärv
2008-04-10 16:18                     ` Drew Adams
2008-04-10 18:32                       ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-10 18:45                         ` Drew Adams
2008-04-10 21:21                           ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-11  5:23                             ` Jan Djärv
2008-04-11  6:47                               ` Jan Djärv
2008-04-11 16:28                               ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-10 20:29                       ` Jan Djärv [this message]
2008-04-10 21:14                         ` Drew Adams
2008-04-11  5:21                           ` Jan Djärv
2008-03-20 23:59 ` Juri Linkov
2008-03-21  7:06   ` Dan Nicolaescu

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