Re: Problems extracting a text property

[Tassilo Horn]

Tassilo Horn <thorn+news@fastmail.fm> writes:

Hi,

> on a link in an info buffer the text has properies like these:
>
> ,----
> | (font-lock-face info-xref mouse-face highlight
> |  help-echo mouse-2: go to (libc)Special Functions)
> | (font-lock-face info-xref mouse-face highlight
> |  help-echo mouse-2: go to (libext2fs.info))
> | (font-lock-face info-xref mouse-face highlight
> |  help-echo mouse-2: go to (libidn)Invoking idn)
> | (font-lock-face info-xref mouse-face highlight
> |  help-echo mouse-2: go to (nano))
> | (font-lock-face info-xref mouse-face highlight
> |  help-echo mouse-2: go to (recode))
> `----

I found the solution myself. "mouse-2: go to (recode)" is the value of
the help-echo property, so

    (get-text-property (point) 'help-echo)

works.

Bye,
Tassilo
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