Eli Zaretskii writes: > IMHO, we should rather implement the functionality that somehow isn't > there (although I could probably swear I've seen it in action, at > least in NTEmacs circa 21.1) which allows the user to select one of 3 > behaviors: > > (1) tooltips popping up in small windows > (2) tooltip text displayed in the echo area > (3) tooltips completely disabled > > (1) should be (and is) the default on graphical displays, (2) should > be the default on character terminals.
Features like tooltips and mouse-face don't work on a character terminal because currently Emacs doesn't know where the mouse is between clicks. A daemon program like X is needed. GPM could possibly do this on a Linux console. I don't find help text in the echo area very distracting and I'm not sure if anyone would find a need to turn it off (option 3), but if someone wants to implement it then tooltip-use-echo-area would have more logic. Nick _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
