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RE: tooltips for minor modes
From: |
Drew Adams |
Subject: |
RE: tooltips for minor modes |
Date: |
Thu, 21 Feb 2008 01:37:16 -0800 |
> > > 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 ?
I don't feel up to it, and I don't have the time right now to look into it.
Someone else likely has an idea how to do it. I certainly don't want to
touch the `define-minor-mode' code, in any case - it's a precision Swiss
watch. ;-) Sorry.
- 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, 2008/02/21
- RE: tooltips for minor modes,
Drew Adams <=
- 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