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bug#20183: 24.4.91; No resize handle to adjust width of Emacs windows
From: |
Drew Adams |
Subject: |
bug#20183: 24.4.91; No resize handle to adjust width of Emacs windows |
Date: |
Thu, 2 Jul 2015 09:49:51 -0700 (PDT) |
> There seems to be a technical problem with this. Pop-up help
> disappears here as soon as I move the mouse over it.
Oh, right; my bad. Something more than :help-echo is needed for
such a feature, no doubt. Perhaps a key binding. Or a key
binding that acts only when a tooltip is shown (but that won't
help if `tooltip-mode' is turned off).
The general idea would be to provide help on Emacs UI components
- whatever a user sees and might have questions about. How we
might best do that, I don't know.
Long ago I wrote a command, `help-on-click/key' that goes in
that direction somewhat, but it doesn't handle anything Emacs
displays that Lisp cannot perceive or interact with. And I
haven't bothered to update it since 1999 (!), so it obviously
does not reflect the many UI thingies added since then.
You access this command using `C-h RET' or via the Help menu.
You are then prompted to "Click mouse on something or type a
key sequence". From the doc string:
You can do any of the following:
type a key sequence (e.g. `C-M-s')
choose a menu item (e.g. [menu-bar files open-file])
click on a scroll bar
click on the mode line
click in the minibuffer
click on an Emacs-related name in a buffer: apropos is called
click anywhere else in a buffer: its modes are described
Help is generally provided using `describe-key' and the Emacs online
manual (via `Info-goto-emacs-key-command-node'). If no entry is found
in the index of the Emacs manual, then the manual is searched from the
beginning for literal occurrences of KEY.
If you click on a name in a buffer, then `apropos-documentation' and
`apropos' are used to find information on the name. These functions
are not used when you do something besides click on a name.
If you click elsewhere in a buffer other than the minibuffer, then
`describe-mode' is used to describe the buffer's current mode(s).