> From: Nick Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 20:29:45 +1200 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 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.
True for Unix tty's (the MS-DOS port uses a character terminal, and does support tooltips and mouse-face). But I hope that we will have this implemented in the future. _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel