Re: Menu help text not shown when using keyboard

[Jason Rumney]

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

>     If you are using the keyboard to navigate the menus then you currently 
>     get no information about the help text that are associated with the menu 
>     entries.
>
> Would you like to try to implement this?  I think you need to find the
> right code in xmenu.c, and make it call show_help_echo.

The menu selection code is called asynchronously (at least on
Windows). So calling show_help_echo directly is not possible. You have
to call kbd_buffer_store_help_event (frame, help), and somehow arrange
for it to use the minibuffer rather than popping up a tooltip at the
mouse position.