We already change the height of the echo
area when a multi-line string is displayed there, so I don't see any
reason to avoid that for help echo.
Display of multi-line strings does not happen due to just moving the
mouse. I think a lot of people will prefer the current behavior, so
But we are talking about a very rare situation: (a) the user
deliberately asked for the help echo to be displayed in the echo area,
Simply disabling tooltip mode is does not constitute a positive
request to display help in the echo area. It is a request
not to show tooltip windows.
We
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 21:52:00 -0800
From: M Jared Finder [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
Richard Stallman wrote:
I think this is intentional. Changing the height of the echo area
as you move the mouse would be rather unpleasant.
It could combine the tooltip string
I think this is intentional. Changing the height of the echo area
as you move the mouse would be rather unpleasant.
It could combine the tooltip string lines, and display as much text as
will fit in the echo area. Would that be better?
If this is intentional, the documentation for
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 05:54:06 +0900
From: Miles Bader [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: M Jared Finder [EMAIL PROTECTED], emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
2006/3/21, Eli Zaretskii [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I rather think it's a bug. We already change the height of the echo
area when a multi-line string is
Cc: M Jared Finder [EMAIL PROTECTED], emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
From: Stefan Monnier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 16:06:41 -0500
IIRC the miniwindow used to resize for tooltips and it was changed
specifically because it was found to be annoying.
Perhaps back when the
I think this is intentional. Changing the height of the echo area
as you move the mouse would be rather unpleasant.
It could combine the tooltip string lines, and display as much text as
will fit in the echo area. Would that be better?
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If you have tooltip-mode disabled, multi-line help-echo text-properties and
overlays only display their first line. Here's some code that reproduces
the behavior:
(let* ((min (point-min))
(max (point-max))
(half (/ (+ min max) 2)))
(let ((overlay (make-overlay min
Richard Stallman wrote:
I think this is intentional. Changing the height of the echo area
as you move the mouse would be rather unpleasant.
It could combine the tooltip string lines, and display as much text as
will fit in the echo area. Would that be better?
If this is intentional, the
If you have tooltip-mode disabled, multi-line help-echo text-properties and
overlays only display
their first line. Here's some code that reproduces the behavior:
(let* ((min (point-min))
(max (point-max))
(half (/ (+ min max) 2)))
(let ((overlay (make-overlay min half)))
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