From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jonas Bernoulli Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Let packages specify help-echo of tabulated-list header Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2017 23:20:14 +0100 Message-ID: <87a809mw9t.fsf@bernoul.li> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1509315641 21512 195.159.176.226 (29 Oct 2017 22:20:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2017 22:20:41 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: mu4e 1.0-alpha0; emacs 26.0.90 To: Emacs developers Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 29 23:20:32 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1e8vwV-0004b1-6p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Oct 2017 23:20:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37891 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e8vwc-0003zu-G5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Oct 2017 18:20:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44836) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e8vwW-0003zd-C2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Oct 2017 18:20:33 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e8vwT-0002tT-7y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Oct 2017 18:20:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.hostpark.net ([212.243.197.30]:32836) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e8vwT-0002si-0x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Oct 2017 18:20:29 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.hostpark.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3268E16541 for ; Sun, 29 Oct 2017 23:20:24 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: by Hostpark/NetZone Mailprotection at hostpark.net Original-Received: from mail.hostpark.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail1.hostpark.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10124) with ESMTP id a6pNYfoNehaP for ; Sun, 29 Oct 2017 23:20:23 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from desktop (unknown [31.10.135.70]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.hostpark.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A9B6916799 for ; Sun, 29 Oct 2017 23:20:23 +0100 (CET) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 212.243.197.30 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:219821 Archived-At: Hello, When using narrow columns in a tabulated-list buffer it would sometimes be nice if the package could specify the help-echo shown when moving the mouse over a column label. Or can you correctly guesses what the "B>U" "U>B" columns in Magit's repository list buffer are about? This would be easy to do, just teach `tabulated-list-init-header' to use the `:help-echo' property, if any, instead of a hard-coded string. Like it does for `:pad-right' and `:right-align'. Cheers, Jonas