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Re: tooltips for minor modes
From: |
Dan Nicolaescu |
Subject: |
Re: tooltips for minor modes |
Date: |
Thu, 21 Feb 2008 01:19:01 -0800 |
"Drew Adams" <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.
> >
> > I think it is a good idea. We could perhaps establish a convention
> > that a certain part of the doc string of the minor mode function is
> > used for this. Or, if that would require changing too many doc
> > strings, we could have some other way to specify the string for this.
One possibility would be to use the first line of the doc-string. But a
quick "grep --after=1 define-minor-mode" shows that for quite a lot of
minor modes the first line of the doc-string gives not useful
information:
scroll-all.el:106:(define-minor-mode scroll-all-mode
scroll-all.el-107- "Toggle Scroll-All minor mode.
So doing either the above or the proposal below requires some editing.
> Perhaps add a :help keyword to `define-minor-mode' etc.?
Sounds good, and consistent with other uses for :help. Where would that
:help property be stored?
Drew, given that you are you touched this minor-mode stuff most
recently, do you want to implement one of these ?
- tooltips for minor modes, Dan Nicolaescu, 2008/02/19
- Re: tooltips for minor modes, David Kastrup, 2008/02/19
- Re: tooltips for minor modes, Richard Stallman, 2008/02/19
- RE: tooltips for minor modes, Drew Adams, 2008/02/19
- Re: tooltips for minor modes,
Dan Nicolaescu <=
- RE: tooltips for minor modes, Drew Adams, 2008/02/21
- Re: tooltips for minor modes, Richard Stallman, 2008/02/21
- RE: tooltips for minor modes, Drew Adams, 2008/02/21
- Re: tooltips for minor modes, Stefan Monnier, 2008/02/21
- Re: tooltips for minor modes, Dan Nicolaescu, 2008/02/22
- Re: tooltips for minor modes, Richard Stallman, 2008/02/22