Re: New start up splash screen annoyance...

[David Kastrup]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden> writes:

> Drew Adams writes:
>
>  > But I remembered that we already have `mouse-3' on the mode-line
>  > bound to `mouse-delete-window'.
>
> Surely you didn't type that with a straight face!  Jane Noob is
> going to have the special meaning of button 3 on the modeline
> memorized?  I don't think so.

There is a tooltip on the mode line, and Emacs' tooltips are enabled
by default, usable and unobtrusive on all platforms with GUI.

However, cough cough, the tool tip reads:

mouse-1: select (drag to resize), mouse-2 = C-x 1, mouse-3 = C-x 0

So while we _have_ sort of a working announcement in place, it is
utterly useless to beginners.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum