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Re: Item for TODO?
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Nick Roberts |
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Re: Item for TODO? |
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Sun, 23 Jan 2005 00:09:39 +1300 |
> > There's also been discussions to add support for tooltips, tho it's
> > not clear exactly what this should look like
>
> Emacs already has the machinery to support this: if show-help-function
> is nil (and it usually is on a tty), the tooltip text is shown in the
> echo area. The Windows port used that functionality before tooltip
> support was added to it, and the MS-DOS port still uses it.
>
> So the only thing that's missing is to make the tty mouse support
> package inject help-echo events into the Emacs keyboard queue.
> Everything else should ``just work''.
What is a help-echo event?
On an xterm, if you move the mouse around no input characters are generated
for Emacs to read. It only knows where the mouse is when you click a
button. In between, I don't think it knows where the mouse is. How could
it then display a tooltip?
Nick
Re: Item for TODO?, Richard Stallman, 2005/01/21