Re: tofu-help-mode

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> BTW, for those interested, here's a proof-of-concept.
>
> I don't intend to work much more on this (except maybe for the
> `post-redisplay-functions` part which might be useful on its own), so
> I'd encourage someone else to take it over from here if they'd like to
> see it turn into something usable.

Reading the code, it looks like everything is there, except expanding on
this:

> +          (put-text-property pos (1+ pos) 'help-echo
> +                             (or (get-char-code-property char 'name)
> +                              (get-char-code-property char 'old-name)
> +                              "This is unknown TOFU!")))))))

And adding some documentation and NEWS and stuff, of course.  If you
push this to the trunk, I can take it from there...

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