Re: menu help echo

[Harald.Maier.BW@t-online.de]

"Dr Francis J. Wright" <f.j.wright@qmul.ac.uk> writes:

> In GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i386-msvc-nt4.0.1381)
>  of 2002-03-19 on buffy
> configured using `configure --with-msvc (12.00)'
> 
> In the emacs-21.1.90 pretest, menu help echo was working, but in this
> version it no longer works.  For example, the File menu now produces no
> help echo, whereas previously every item in it did produce help echo. 
> First brief testing suggests that help echo for items other than menu
> items does appear to work.  (Starting Emacs with no init file makes no
> difference.)

  In GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i386-msvc-nt5.0.2195)
   of 2002-03-19 on buffy
  configured using `configure --with-msvc (12.00)'

I tried the prebuilt version too on a nt-5.0 system and there the menu
help echo works fine. So it seems that this is a problem only with the
nt4.0.1381 system as Jason's states.

Jason Rumney writes:

> 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.


Harald