Re: mode-line tooltips for "[" and "]" in recursive-edit

[Jan Djärv]

Jan Djärv skrev:
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> Stefan Monnier skrev:
>>>>>> But the main thing is to avoid minibuffer expansion and shrinkage.
>>>>> Why is that the main thing? Why is that even a goal?
>>>> Because some people don't like it or because it sometimes can't be
>>>> done.
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>>> If it can't be done, then it can't be done. Can't argue with that.
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>>> But it doesn't seem right for the only echo-area display of tooltip
>>> help to truncate it at the frame width. Joining the lines is not
>>> a problem, but losing some of the info could be.
>>
>>> Make such truncation an option, if you want, and even make it the
>>> default way of displaying a tooltip in the echo area, if you want. But
>>> there should be some way for users to see the complete tooltip text in
>>> the echo area.
>>
>> Oh, you're arguing about the truncation part, not the single-line part.
>> Then I agree it might be better to not bother truncating.
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> If you don't truncate, you can't get single line.

You can get a single line of text in a minibuffer that is just one line if
message-truncate-lines is t, so that is what it does now.  Thanks for the
truncate-line hint.   But I don't get it, you still can't sidescroll in the
minibuffer, so some of the text is unavailable anyway.

        Jan D.