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Re: Nested display strings
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Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: Nested display strings |
Date: |
Thu, 28 Apr 2011 15:42:15 -0300 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> >> A good/natural way for redisplay to signal such problems would be to
>> >> display them directly in the window (e.g. insert some threatening
>> >> question mark or some such, ideally with mouse-over highlighting and
>> >> a help-echo-like text explaining the problem).
>> > Now, _that_ is what I call "obnoxious".
>> I have no idea why you'd find it obnoxious. After all, that's pretty
>> much what we do for "chars we don't know how to draw", except we put
>> a square box rather than a threatening question mark and we don't bother
>> with the help-echo and mouse highlight.
> Exactly. The things we do NOT do in the square box case are that make
> your suggestion too extreme, to my taste. The situation is not so
> threatening, after all.
Well, I mostly want it to be easy for users to recognize that it's
a redisplay problem, and also to figure out what's the cause of
the problem, hence the help-echo. I was thinking of a mouse
highlighting to make it into a hyperlink, but I don't think we'd know
where to jump to, so that's probably a bad idea.
Stefan
- Re: Nested display strings, (continued)
- Re: Nested display strings, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/04/26
- Re: Nested display strings, Stefan Monnier, 2011/04/26
- Re: Nested display strings, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/04/26
- Re: Nested display strings, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/04/26
- Re: Nested display strings, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/04/26
- Re: Nested display strings, chad, 2011/04/26
- Re: Nested display strings, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/04/26
- RE: Nested display strings, Drew Adams, 2011/04/26
- Re: Nested display strings, Stefan Monnier, 2011/04/27
- Re: Nested display strings, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/04/28
- Re: Nested display strings,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: Nested display strings, Chong Yidong, 2011/04/26
- Re: Nested display strings, Stefan Monnier, 2011/04/26
- Re: Nested display strings, Richard Stallman, 2011/04/26
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