RE: help echo (tooltip) for :link buttons in Customize

[Drew Adams]

Well, it could be argued that (url-link...) is like a button, since it is
not a link within Emacs. Nevertheless, it acts as a link more than as an
action button. I'd suggest giving it a face like a link and making the help
echo clearly say that it is a Web link.

We might also think about using a different face for such external links -
perhaps green underline instead of blue underline. This is a fairly common
convention on wiki pages for instance: blue for links within the wiki; green
for external links.

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    Oops - #2 is incorrect. This is a link, not a button. This
    means that it should appear as a link, not a button.

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        The tooltip for a :link button in Customize says only this:
        "Follow link".

        1. This is useless - we might as well get rid of it, if we
    can't find
           something better.

        2. It is a button, not a link (from a user's perspective),
    so the text
           is anyway incorrect.

        3. If we keep such a tooltip, the text should be more
    specific, taking
           into account the particular kind of :link. For example, for
           `(url-link...)' we might use "Information on the Web" or "Find on
           the Web"; for `(emacs-commentary-link...)' we might use
           "Commentary" or "Library Commentary".

        4. If an associated :tag is available, we might use that as the help
           echo too - e.g. :tag "Download" could lead to a help
    echo with the
           same text; however, in this case, the help echo is truly
           unnecessary and unhelpful.


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