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From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
To: Leo Liu <sdl.web@gmail.com>
Cc: 13978@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13978: 24.3; New minor mode eldoc-post-insert-mode
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 07:39:18 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ehfehezd.fsf@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1mwu2ybs6.fsf@gmail.com> (Leo Liu's message of "Sun, 17 Mar 2013 10:56:25 +0800")

Leo Liu <sdl.web@gmail.com> writes:
>> Shouldn't that be called `eldoc-minibuffer-mode'?
>> And why not just use eldoc-mode?
>
> eldoc-post-insert-mode can work everywhere not just in the minibuffer.
> The idea is from me finding eldoc-mode too distracting by printing
> 'constantly' to the echo area. Thus eldoc-post-insert-mode only shows
> the info when you are typing. (For me it shows the info at the moment I
> need it ;)).

I think you might want to make this configurable. Personally, I like
that I can move point inside a function call in existing code, and it
will show the argument names and which argument I'm on.

It should be as useful when editing an expression to be evaluated.





  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-17  3:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-16 19:23 bug#13978: 24.3; New minor mode eldoc-post-insert-mode Leo Liu
2013-03-16 21:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-03-17  2:56   ` Leo Liu
2013-03-17  3:39     ` Dmitry Gutov [this message]
2013-03-17  3:57       ` Leo Liu
2013-03-17  4:01         ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-03-17  4:09           ` Leo Liu
2013-03-17 12:10             ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-03-17 13:04             ` Stefan Monnier
2013-03-17 13:51               ` Leo Liu
2013-03-17 15:21                 ` Leo Liu
2013-03-17 15:26                 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-03-17 15:55                   ` Leo Liu

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