Re: [h-e-w] Annoying message in mini-buffer

[Jason Rumney]

"Richard M. Heiberger" <address@hidden> writes:

> Indeed, the dired-help-echo, the buff-menu-help-echo, and the
> help-echo in the *Help* buffer are all instances of the same thing.
> I have been thinking of them as three things and that explains some
> of the cross-communication about the help-echo.
> 
> With this understanding, I still want to treat them as three distinct
> things.

It is not only those three. There is also help-echo in info buffers,
and gdb buffers, and in future I expect more modes will take advantage
of this new feature.  Rather than introduce a raft of new variables to
cover every possible way to customize this, I think if more
fine-grained control is desired, then show-help-function can be made
buffer-local, and set in hooks.

eg:

(make-variable-buffer-local 'show-help-function)
(add-hook 'dired-mode-hook (lambda () (setq show-help-function 'null)))


-- 
Jason Rumney