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Re: tooltips for minor modes
From: |
Dan Nicolaescu |
Subject: |
Re: tooltips for minor modes |
Date: |
Tue, 19 Feb 2008 01:47:01 -0800 |
David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
> Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > It would be nice if the mode-line :lighter for minor modes would have a
> > tooltip with a brief description of what the minor mode is.
> > Things like "Fly", "hs", "Fill" are not very explicit, providing a
> > tooltip would be very helpful for some users.
> >
> > Not sure what is the best way to provide a generic mechanism for doing
this...
>
> Well a tooltip "minor mode" "minor mode help" is not really useful.
> Substituting the actual name of the mode in the tooltip would seem like
> an improvement.
Agreed, but it's still not even close to being good enough.
Something like "Minor mode: glasses-mode" gives close to zero useful
information if you are not familiar with the mode...
- tooltips for minor modes, Dan Nicolaescu, 2008/02/19
- Re: tooltips for minor modes, David Kastrup, 2008/02/19
- Re: tooltips for minor modes,
Dan Nicolaescu <=
- Re: tooltips for minor modes, Richard Stallman, 2008/02/19
- RE: tooltips for minor modes, Drew Adams, 2008/02/19
- Re: tooltips for minor modes, Dan Nicolaescu, 2008/02/21
- RE: tooltips for minor modes, Drew Adams, 2008/02/21
- Re: tooltips for minor modes, Richard Stallman, 2008/02/21
- RE: tooltips for minor modes, Drew Adams, 2008/02/21
- Re: tooltips for minor modes, Stefan Monnier, 2008/02/21
- Re: tooltips for minor modes, Dan Nicolaescu, 2008/02/22
- Re: tooltips for minor modes, Richard Stallman, 2008/02/22