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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: "積丹尼 Dan Jacobson" <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Cc: 50775@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#50775: ispell help message times out before most people can read it
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2021 04:26:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <875yuppf0k.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87czoy86c1.5.fsf@jidanni.org> ("積丹尼 Dan Jacobson"'s message of "Fri, 24 Sep 2021 21:13:18 +0800")

積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> writes:

> That's because the three line message that "?"
> shows times out in one second.
>
> But some people need more than one second to read it.

I've now added a new user option 'ispell-help-timeout' so that you can
control this.

> So I have a better idea.
>
> Make it into a four line message, so that way there would be no
> need to switch back to the original prompt, because the original prompt
> would now be at the bottom, just like before.

Hm...  That's a good idea, I think.  But how does that affect people
that have a lower number on the max height of the echo area?

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no





  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-09-25  2:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-24 13:13 bug#50775: ispell help message times out before most people can read it 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2021-09-24 13:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-24 13:52   ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2021-09-24 14:05     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-24 14:34       ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2021-09-24 15:39       ` Juri Linkov
2021-09-24 16:10         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-25 18:57           ` Juri Linkov
2021-09-25 19:45             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-25  2:26 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2021-09-25 18:17   ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-25 18:52     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-25 19:38       ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-25 19:44         ` Juri Linkov
2021-09-25 19:48         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-26  6:30         ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2021-09-26  6:59           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-29 11:32             ` Stefan Kangas

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