From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 7691@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#7691: 24.0.50; x-popup-menu with keymap - :help keyword
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:22:33 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv1v5crsr6.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <533F867CDF704323995770A237B514FF@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Mon, 20 Dec 2010 13:12:52 -0800")
> But put the pointer over item `Foo' in the menu and you will not see the
> :help displayed. This is true also if `tooltip-mode' is off (the help
> does not show in the minibuffer/echo area).
Looks like a bug, indeed. Might be a very longstanding one.
It's probably some missing code somewhere.
> There is this note in `(elisp) Pop-Up Menus':
> "Don't use `x-popup-menu' to display a menu if you
> could do the job with a prefix key defined with a menu
> keymap.
[...]
> I cannot tell if that note is supposed to speak to the limitation/bug
> I'm reporting.
No relation: it talks about when to use x-popup-menu, not about how to
use it. Also it talks about C-h c rather than tooltip help.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-20 22:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-20 21:12 bug#7691: 24.0.50; x-popup-menu with keymap - :help keyword Drew Adams
2010-12-20 21:30 ` Drew Adams
2010-12-20 22:22 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2010-12-20 22:41 ` Drew Adams
2010-12-20 23:05 ` Jason Rumney
2010-12-20 23:17 ` Drew Adams
2010-12-21 2:11 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-12-21 3:32 ` Jason Rumney
2010-12-21 11:06 ` grischka
2016-04-28 9:50 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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