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bug#3173: Enabling gud-tooltip-mode in .emacs doesn't work
From: |
Lennart Borgman |
Subject: |
bug#3173: Enabling gud-tooltip-mode in .emacs doesn't work |
Date: |
Sat, 2 May 2009 14:07:09 +0200 |
On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz> wrote:
> > When running gdb under Emacs, M-x gud-tooltip-mode works fine with
> > tooltips appearing as the mouse is moved over variables.
> >
> > With the following in the .emacs file:-
> >
> >
> > (custom-set-variables
> > ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom.
> > ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
> > ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
> > ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
> > '(gud-tooltip-mode t)
> > '(inhibit-startup-screen t))
> >
> > .....Emacs and gdb are then started but nothing happens when the mouse
> > is moved over variables.
>
> It looks like setting a variable defined through define-minor-mode to t in
> customize doesn't run the body code when that minor mode is loaded. I
> don't know if that's a bug in customize or if gud-tooltip-mode shouldn't
> be defined as a minor mode.
It might be related to the same problem for define-minor-mode used in
libraries not included in Emacs. (I have long ago submitted a patch
for this and I believe I still have this in EmacsW32.)
Could it be that this happen because gud-tooltip-mode is not autoloaded?