Re: Swap GUD fringe/margin mouse-2 and mouse-3 bindings

[Kim F. Storm]

Nick Roberts <address@hidden> writes:

> Currently, you can select "a" as a region, then on the gud-print tool bar icon
> to print the value of a (in the GUD buffer), select "b" to see value of b,
> select "b->c" to see value of b->c and select "b->c->d" to see value of
> "b->c->d.

I see.  Thanks.

>
> But you seem to be saying bind a mouse event to gud-print and change how it
> parses expressions.  

Yes.

>                      Mouse-1 is needed for normal use of the source buffer,
> like editing.

It could be a mode-switch button on the toolbar ... when you enable it,
mouse-1 clicks will show the value of the expression at point...

But let's forget about it for now.  I can make my own hacks, and we
can discuss it again after the release, if I happen to write something
useful.

>  > A way to toggle gud tool-tips in the GUD toolbar (I don't want them
>  > enabled all the time).
>
> You can currently toggle them from the menu bar.  With 80 columns and starting
> with "--fullname" there's no room left on my tool bar.

Ok.

>
>  > Make gud tooltips use gud-find-c-expr instead of
>  > tooltip-identifier-from-point.
>
> I agree that tooltip-identifier-from-point doesn't always do what you want
> but it's safe.  Gud-print will call procedures e.g abort (), which you
> wouldn't want to happen if the mouse just lingered too long over it.

To me, SWIM implies that no function are ever called automatically :-)

> tooltip-identifier-from-point could be enhanced if you specified all the
> differences between existing behaviour and desired behaviour.

Right!  I can "just" make my own SWIM version :-)

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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk