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tooltip-mode shouldn't be enabled in the Linux console by default
From: |
Nick Roberts |
Subject: |
tooltip-mode shouldn't be enabled in the Linux console by default |
Date: |
Sun, 26 Apr 2009 23:04:05 +1200 |
For Emacs in CVS, tooltip-mode is enabled by default for text-only terminals.
The file tooltip.el says this:
;; Even if we start on a text-only terminal, make this non-nil by
;; default because we can open a graphical frame later (multi-tty).
I think this is wrong because, in the Linux console with gpm, every time the
mouse moves over a region with a help-echo property, in the mini-buffer, you
get the error message:
Error while displaying tooltip: (error Non-X frame used)
before the help text appears.
Presumably if a multi-tty user chooses to open a graphical frame, he
can enable tooltip-mode if he wishes. Or maybe it is possible to distinguish
between the Linux console and a text-only terminal on a graphical terminal,
e.g xterm on X11 where gpm is not available.
--
Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob
- tooltip-mode shouldn't be enabled in the Linux console by default,
Nick Roberts <=
- Re: tooltip-mode shouldn't be enabled in the Linux console by default, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/04/26
- Re: tooltip-mode shouldn't be enabled in the Linux console by default, Glenn Morris, 2009/04/26
- Re: tooltip-mode shouldn't be enabled in the Linux console by default, Stefan Monnier, 2009/04/27
- Re: tooltip-mode shouldn't be enabled in the Linux console by default, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/04/27
- Re: tooltip-mode shouldn't be enabled in the Linux console by default, Chong Yidong, 2009/04/27
- Re: tooltip-mode shouldn't be enabled in the Linux console by default, Nick Roberts, 2009/04/28
- Re: tooltip-mode shouldn't be enabled in the Linux console by default, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/04/28
- Re: tooltip-mode shouldn't be enabled in the Linux console by default, Chong Yidong, 2009/04/28
- Re: tooltip-mode shouldn't be enabled in the Linux console by default, Nick Roberts, 2009/04/29