Re: Question for help-echo property

[Klaus Berndl <Klaus.Berndl@sdm.de>]

On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Jason Rumney wrote:



>  Klaus Berndl <Klaus.Berndl@sdm.de> writes:
>  
> >     (put-text-property p (+ p (length text)) 'help-echo
> >                        'klaus-help-echo-fn)
> > 
> > (defun klaus-help-echo-fn (win obj pos)
> >   (message "Position: %d" pos))

Yes, you are right. But this doesn' matter for the described problem...

>  
>  This results in both message and help-echo displaying the same thing
>  in the mode-line. It would be better to use format rather than
>  message.
>  
> > BTW: If i remember right, the stuff with a function as value for the
> > help-property has already worked well, and i suppose this was with Emacs
> > 21.1. Now I'm using 21.2.! Is is possible that concerning help-echo
> > something has changed??
>  
>  I recall some bugs were fixed in the MS-Windows code to prevent
>  excessive redisplaying of help-echo in the minibuffer which was causing
>  CPU usage to approach 100% in some cases.

Of course this would be bad

>  Perhaps the fix went too far.

Can you reproduce my problem description?



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