Re: tooltips for minor modes

[David Kastrup]

Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden> writes:

> It would be nice if the mode-line :lighter for minor modes would have a
> tooltip with a brief description of what the minor mode is.
> Things like "Fly", "hs", "Fill" are not very explicit, providing a
> tooltip would be very helpful for some users.
>
> Not sure what is the best way to provide a generic mechanism for doing this...

Well a tooltip "minor mode" "minor mode help" is not really useful.
Substituting the actual name of the mode in the tooltip would seem like
an improvement.

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David Kastrup