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Re: Bug in tooltip handling


From: Nick Roberts
Subject: Re: Bug in tooltip handling
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 21:01:26 +1200

 > > It might be fine for personalising Emacs but not a general package.
 > > Your construction above adds the function to the hook at the end. So,
 > > for example, if that's in a buffer that I'm using for debugging, the
 > > tooltips will display translations of my variable names rather than
 > > their values, which might not be what I want.
 > 
 > Sure, but my rdictcc-tooltip-mode as well as dictionary-el's tooltip
 > mode are buffer local. If a user enables one of them in a debugging
 > buffer he might really want translations. After toggling the mode off,
 > the GUD-tooltips will be back again.

The example that you gave at the start didn't toggle anything: it just added a
function to tooltip-hook.  Anyway, I'll look at splitting out the
functionality after the release.  The pretest is meant to be imminent, but the
last one for Emacs 21 took about a year, so I wouldn't hold your breath.


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Nick                                           http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob




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