David Kastrup wrote: Tooltips are an optional help. A lot of people make do without them. XEmacs has no working tooltips even today. So this is not so very tragic.
I did not complain about absence of tooltips as such. I personally disable tooltips, even under a window system. But with Xterm Mouse mode, you do not get their replacement, echo area messages either. That is the problem. And there is no mouse face. The "fireworks" are not destructive and usually deliver a text message what happened. I don't see much of a problem here. A not very experienced user has two windows, one showing Info. He clicks mouse-2 on the Info buffer mode line to make it cover the entire frame. But that is not what happens. Instead, the Info buffer widens. The poor user may not even know what narrowing is, or how Info is internally implemented. He may have no idea what happened or what to do next. We might want assign a mouse-button+modifier combination to explictly providing a tooltip in the echo area: Even with Xterm Mouse mode enabled, mouse-button+modifier combinations get handled by the terminal emulator, not by Emacs. Sincerely, Luc. _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
