From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: menu help echo Date: 25 Mar 2002 21:45:03 +0000 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <3C9F55B8.AEA720CF@maths.qmul.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1017093274 17168 127.0.0.1 (25 Mar 2002 21:54:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 21:54:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Andrew Innes Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16pcQE-0004Sn-00 for ; Mon, 25 Mar 2002 22:54:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16pcQC-00054d-00; Mon, 25 Mar 2002 16:54:32 -0500 Original-Received: from protactinium.btinternet.com ([194.73.73.176]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16pcPC-000526-00; Mon, 25 Mar 2002 16:53:30 -0500 Original-Received: from host62-7-32-233.in-addr.btopenworld.com ([62.7.32.233] helo=nyaumo.btinternet.com) by protactinium.btinternet.com with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #8) id 16pcPA-0002IO-00; Mon, 25 Mar 2002 21:53:29 +0000 Original-Received: from nyaumo.btinternet.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nyaumo.btinternet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id VAA00525; Mon, 25 Mar 2002 21:45:04 GMT Original-To: "Dr Francis J. Wright" In-Reply-To: <3C9F55B8.AEA720CF@maths.qmul.ac.uk> Original-Lines: 39 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:168 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:168 "Dr Francis J. Wright" writes: > In GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i386-msvc-nt4.0.1381) > of 2002-03-19 on buffy > In the emacs-21.1.90 pretest, menu help echo was working, but in this > version it no longer works. I have noticed this on my work PC, also with the prebuilt binary on NT4.0. At home though, the menu help works, but built from source I checked out of CVS myself around the time the release was made, and on XP. Three possibilities: 1) The API messages used to produce menu help on Windows are not supported on NT4.0. Before your report, I assumed this was the case (since I know those messages are not sent by the OS on older versions of Windows). But if you saw the menu help working in the pretests on the same machine that it doesn't work on now, this possibility is eliminated I think. 2) Something went wrong with the 21.2 snapshot that caused some older versions of w32fns.c or w32menu.c to be included instead of the latest versions on the release branch. 3) Something was different on Andrew's machine when he compiled 21.2, (an operating system downgrade?) causing the menu help to not be compiled in. Seems unlikely. Perhaps someone else can shed light on which of the above possibilities it is. Does any Windows user see help in the minibuffer when they move the mouse over the items in the File menu? Did you build from source, or are you using the prebuilt binary? And which version of Windows are you using? -- Jason Rumney