From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: The minibuffer vs. Dialog Boxes (Re: Making XEmacs be more up-to-date) Date: 24 Apr 2002 18:08:17 +0900 Organization: The XEmacs Project Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1019639560 22786 127.0.0.1 (24 Apr 2002 09:12:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 09:12:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Andy Piper , Eli Zaretskii , Hrvoje Niksic , jas@extundo.com, bradym@balestra.org, xemacs-design@xemacs.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 170IpM-0005vP-00 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 11:12:40 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 170Iqx-0005oD-00 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 11:14:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 170Ioy-0005md-00; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 05:12:16 -0400 Original-Received: from tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.98.109]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 170Ilw-0005h5-00 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 05:09:08 -0400 Original-Received: from steve by tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 170IlA-00059F-00; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 18:08:20 +0900 Original-To: Terje Bless In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.51 (Python 2.1.3 on Linux/i686) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:3164 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:3164 >>>>> "Terje" == Terje Bless writes: Terje> Tooltips might help, but I wonder if they might not be too Terje> expensive to implement and maintain (they tend to be in the Terje> context of the analogous Mac OS Baloon Help) compared to Terje> their value. Not that it wouldn't be very helpfull for Terje> figuring out what various gizmos do, mind you! In many cases we already have docstrings. Truncate to first line (<= 80 characters by convention), reformat in <= 25 char lines, display in small font. Also, it wouldn't just be for gizmos, you could also do this with buffer text. (Suggests itself as a secondary "browser" interface for a dictionary application, eg, for a novice in a foreign language--- just point, no click required.) -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Don't ask how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.