From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/55478 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Simplify code for tooltips in menus Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 20:45:33 +0100 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1073072757 11018 80.91.224.253 (2 Jan 2004 19:45:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 19:45:57 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M4018@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Jan 02 20:45:55 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AcVF4-0002Ne-00 for ; Fri, 02 Jan 2004 20:45:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AcVEu-0003ZA-00; Fri, 02 Jan 2004 13:45:44 -0600 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AcVEq-0003Z5-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 02 Jan 2004 13:45:40 -0600 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6099B3A0039 for ; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 13:45:40 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AcVEp-0004KL-00 for ; Fri, 02 Jan 2004 20:45:39 +0100 Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Received: from sea.gmane.org ([80.91.224.252]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AcVEo-0004KD-00 for ; Fri, 02 Jan 2004 20:45:38 +0100 Original-Received: from news by sea.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AcVEo-0002rG-00 for ; Fri, 02 Jan 2004 20:45:38 +0100 Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: Genesis's _A Trick Of The Tail_: "Los Endos" User-Agent: Gnus/5.1004 (Gnus v5.10.4) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:QYL4NAnRygxIOU0JAArc/TYlx/I= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:55478 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:55478 Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de> writes: > Wouldn't the code be more readable (and easier to change if XEmacs > might support this too), if we'd use a utility function (or macro)? Yes, that'd be nice. > This would also be useful for `message.el'. Can (should) we use stuff > from `gnus-util.el' there? Preferably not. But I've sometimes wished that there was a file in the Gnus distribution that just had self-contained little helper functions and macros (like this one). misc.el or something. h4x0r.el. A collection of functions that could be included anywhere without worrying about requiring half the world... -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen