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Re: mode-line tooltips for "[" and "]" in recursive-edit
From: |
Dan Nicolaescu |
Subject: |
Re: mode-line tooltips for "[" and "]" in recursive-edit |
Date: |
Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:04:17 -0700 |
Could you please respect the mail headers? (This is not the fist time
you are doing this).
"Drew Adams" <address@hidden> writes:
> > It would be nice if [ and ] that appear in the mode-line in
> > recursive-edit had a tooltip explaining what they are. Such tooltips
> > will be helpful for beginners.
> >
> > Can someone please add the tooltips?
>
> Why do you suggest a change and then, in the same breath, ask someone to go
> ahead and install it? Isn't that jumping the gun a bit?
It is jumping the gun when dealing with someone that just wants to
nitpick. Someone that wants to cooperate can choose to actually discuss
the idea.
> I, for one, think this enhancement would be silly. Tooltips for the
> mode-line abound already.
The logic here is flawed: the fact that the mode-line has tooltips for
other unrelated items has zero implications about the tooltips for
recursive-edit.
To explain why this is needed: good UI design provides clues for what
the elements of the UI. Tooltips are a way to provide such clues, we
use them already. Suggestions for alternative
> Users can read the doc for [].
There's no easy way for the users to find those docs.
- mode-line tooltips for "[" and "]" in recursive-edit, Dan Nicolaescu, 2008/03/20
- RE: mode-line tooltips for "[" and "]" in recursive-edit, Drew Adams, 2008/03/20
- Re: mode-line tooltips for "[" and "]" in recursive-edit,
Dan Nicolaescu <=
- RE: mode-line tooltips for "[" and "]" in recursive-edit, Drew Adams, 2008/03/20
- Re: mode-line tooltips for "[" and "]" in recursive-edit, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/03/20
- Re: mode-line tooltips for "[" and "]" in recursive-edit, Dan Nicolaescu, 2008/03/21
- RE: mode-line tooltips for "[" and "]" in recursive-edit, Drew Adams, 2008/03/21
- [OT] Mail-Followup-To, Outlook (was: mode-line tooltips for "[" and "]" in recursive-edit), Reiner Steib, 2008/03/21
- RE: [OT] Mail-Followup-To, Outlook (was: mode-line tooltips for "[" and "]" in recursive-edit), Drew Adams, 2008/03/21
- Re: [OT] Mail-Followup-To, Outlook, Reiner Steib, 2008/03/21
- Re: [OT] Mail-Followup-To, Outlook, Stefan Monnier, 2008/03/21
- RE: mode-line tooltips for "[" and "]" in recursive-edit, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/03/21
- Re: mode-line tooltips for "[" and "]" in recursive-edit, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/03/21