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Andy Piper <andy@xemacs.org> wrote:

>>>That's what the menus and the tooltips are supposed to accomplish, I
>>>think.
>>
>>Yes, and they are what enable me to use XEmacs at all! The price of
>>entry would otherwise be too high.
>
>So should we implement generic tooltips - rather than just for the
>toolbar? I can see this as a very powerful feature if somebody put in
>the time to write helpful text for various parts of the editor.

Tooltips might help, but I wonder if they might not be too expensive to
implement and maintain (they tend to be in the context of the analogous Mac
OS Baloon Help) compared to their value. Not that it wouldn't be very
helpfull for figuring out what various gizmos do, mind you!