From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: "Clément Pit-Claudel" <cpitclaudel@gmail.com>,
"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Escaping a string for substitute-command-keys
Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2019 16:40:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <875zl32ob0.fsf@tcd.ie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvh84o2ubu.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Fri, 04 Oct 2019 15:19:51 -0400")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> That makes sense. There's an additional problem that I hadn't thought of at
>> first: if I change the help-echo property on my help-echo strings, even
>> though I'll get the right message when mousing over, now things will break
>> for other renderings that do not use substitute-command-keys (in fact, most
>> places that I see in lisp/ do not use substitute-command-keys on help-echo;
>> most importantly, help-at-pt doesn't).
>
> That sounds like a bug, indeed: we need to pass the string
> through substitute-command-keys either always or never.
Another source of inconsistency is {forward,backward}-button, which
display help-echo values in the echo area when called interactively.
Currently, they perform no command name substitution. Should they?
Thanks,
--
Basil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-05 15:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-03 13:52 Escaping a string for substitute-command-keys Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-10-03 16:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-03 16:46 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-10-03 17:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-03 18:28 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-10-03 18:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-04 13:56 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-10-04 14:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-05 4:03 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-10-05 7:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-05 15:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-10-05 15:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-05 4:06 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-10-05 7:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-05 8:04 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-10-05 8:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-05 8:24 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-10-05 9:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-04 19:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-10-05 15:40 ` Basil L. Contovounesios [this message]
2019-10-05 16:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-05 19:53 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-10-06 2:57 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-10-06 17:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
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