Jason Rumney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Christian Schlauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Frank Schmitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> "Drew Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> >>>> 1. the `padding' of the tooltips too large. ... >>>> 2. `tooltip-hide-delay' defaults to 10 seconds. >>>> IMO, this is far too long. >> >> So I conclude that /everybody/ who commented on this agrees with me >> >> [1] "everybody" = three individuals (including me) > > I didn't see the original, but I strongly disagree that 10 seconds is > too long for reading a potentially long message in a tooltip. As long > as the user is not using the keyboard or mouse, what harm is there in > continuing to display the tooltip?
I like tooltips, especially in major modes that I don't use that often. But I will give two examples where I find them /really/ annoying, and that's why I suggested a change: In the original message <URL:http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/41032>, I already wrote about `occur-mode': I like to highlight the match I'm currently interested in by putting the mouse on that line in the *Occur* buffer so that that line is highlighted in green. But then a part of that line (and a part in the line above it) will be covered by "mouse-2: go to this occurrence" for 10 seconds. Most tooltips are of that length, it seems to me. I even think that tooltips that pop up when hovering with the mouse in a buffer should not be much longer than that. Such tooltips can then be read in 3 or 4 seconds. Covering text in the buffer for 10 seconds for long tooltips is annoying (IMO) as tooltips shouldn't be that long (IMO). Second example: when diffing with `M-x ediff-buffers', there can be `fine differences' (highlighted in light and dark blue) in a `difference region'. Then I often `read' on the screen with the mouse pointer in the difference region, but actually I can't do that because /all the time/ there pops up a "Difference region 1 -- non-current" or "Difference region 1 -- current", depending on the mouse pointer being just in the (green or yellow) difference region or over a (blue) `fine difference'. It's impossible to use the mouse-pointer as a reading-aid to check the `fine differences' step-by-step. Maybe this is ediff's fault and ediff should be changed to be less `aggressive'? -- Christian Schlauer _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel