From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Klaus Berndl Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Question for help-echo property Date: 09 Dec 2002 09:31:44 +0100 Organization: sd&m AG, Muenchen, Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1039423250 26491 80.91.224.249 (9 Dec 2002 08:40:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 08:40:50 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18LJT6-0006sz-00 for ; Mon, 09 Dec 2002 09:40:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18LJSj-00040M-04 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Dec 2002 03:40:25 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.uchicago.edu!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!newsfeed.mathworks.com!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.online.be!bnewspeer01.bru.ops.eu.uu.net!lnewspeer01.lnd.ops.eu.uu.net!emea.uu.net!news.sdm.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 42 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: hafenreut.muc.sdm.de Original-X-Trace: solti3.muc.sdm.de 1039422705 10187 193.102.181.147 (9 Dec 2002 08:31:45 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.sdm.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 9 Dec 2002 08:31:45 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:107884 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:4431 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:4431 On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Jason Rumney wrote: > Klaus Berndl 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? -- Klaus Berndl mailto: klaus.berndl@sdm.de sd&m AG http://www.sdm.de software design & management Thomas-Dehler-Str. 27, 81737 München, Germany Tel +49 89 63812-392, Fax -220