Re: Menu help text not shown when using keyboard

[Lennart Borgman]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 15:10:18 +0200
> > From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
> >
> > If you are using the keyboard to navigate the menus then you currently 
> > get no information about the help text that are associated with the menu 
> > entries.
> >    
>
> Please provide a complete and self-contained recipe to reproduce this,
> and please tell on what OS you see this.  ``Using keyboard to navigate
> the menus'' is not enough info, at least for me, to reproduce the
> problem.
>  
Sorry, I will try to remember. I am testing on w32:

In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.0.2195)
of 2005-10-22 on W2ONE

Start with emacs -Q and open the menus from the keyboard with F10. 
Navigate to different menu items. Nothing is shown in the echo area. Put 
the mouse over a menu item with a help text. This now pops up in a tooltip.

Now do M-x tooltip-mode RET to turn off tooltip-mode. Try the same 
things as above. The only difference will be that the tooltips instead 
of poping up are shown in the echo area.

Summary:
You do not see the menu help texts if you are navigating the menus with 
the keyboard. This is not good from a portability point of view.