From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Per Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: help-echo in Custom Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 13:52:07 +0200 Organization: The Church of Emacs Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200308141646.h7EGku827416@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1060948491 31192 80.91.224.253 (15 Aug 2003 11:54:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 11:54:51 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 15 13:54:49 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19ndAP-0001QK-00 for ; Fri, 15 Aug 2003 13:54:49 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19ndBP-00052c-00 for ; Fri, 15 Aug 2003 13:55:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19nd9O-0003Dc-LA for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 15 Aug 2003 07:53:46 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19nd8Q-0002e4-PW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Aug 2003 07:52:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19nd7r-0002Xp-GA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Aug 2003 07:52:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.224.249] (helo=main.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19nd7q-0002XW-B5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Aug 2003 07:52:10 -0400 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19nd8y-0004oZ-00 for ; Fri, 15 Aug 2003 13:53:20 +0200 Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from sea.gmane.org ([80.91.224.252]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19nd8y-0004oR-00 for ; Fri, 15 Aug 2003 13:53:20 +0200 Original-Received: from news by sea.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19nd7p-00083V-00 for ; Fri, 15 Aug 2003 13:52:09 +0200 Original-Lines: 11 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Face: +kRV2]2q}lixHkE{U)mY#+6]{AH=yN~S9@IFiOa@X6?GM|8MBp/ Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.1 (sparc-sun-solaris2.8) Cancel-Lock: sha1:3ttTesLeiC5MIud6JK8dVlHrIYg= X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:15968 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:15968 Since I'm CC'ed: I believe :help-echo in widget.el existed before the help-echo text property. When Emacs got the property, someone made sure widget.el set it with the value given. Which works fine for the simple case of a string, where the two API's are identical. The correct solution would probably be for the code to carefully translate the argument to :help-echo into the format expected by help-echo, probably by creating a helper function on the fly.