Re: Menu help text not shown when using keyboard

[Lennart Borgman]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 19:17:00 +0200
> > From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
> > CC: address@hidden
> >
> > Start with emacs -Q and open the menus from the keyboard with F10. 
> >    
>
> Ahh, that...  I think it only works on Windows and perhaps with GTK.
>
> Anyway, our ability to show tooltips in this case depends on whether
> the keyboard events that navigate the menus are sent to Emacs's
> keyboard queue.  I suspect they aren't.
>  
I think it is available, at least on w32, see w32menu.c:

void
w32_menu_display_help (HWND owner, HMENU menu, UINT item, UINT flags)
{
 if (get_menu_item_info)
   {
     struct frame *f = x_window_to_frame (&one_w32_display_info, owner);
     Lisp_Object frame, help;

     /* No help echo on owner-draw menu items, or when the keyboard is used
    to navigate the menus, since tooltips are distracting if they pop
    up elsewhere.  */
     if (flags & MF_OWNERDRAW || flags & MF_POPUP
     || !(flags & MF_MOUSESELECT))
   help = Qnil;
     else
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