Yet another Red Gnus Feature Request...

Yet another Red Gnus Feature Request...

[d. hall]

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I had gnus and netscape running at the same time *shiver* and over the din
of my computer switching to swap space, I thought of having the message
mini-buf displaying what Gnus "can do" with an outlined button.
I.E. for notice users who aren't to sure about things and they're afraid to
click the button just in case it decides to... say spawn another netscape
process (which would absolutely die on my machine).  It's the attribution
buttons would display what it would before you click it, or else have a
shift click for these buttons.

d.
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Re: Yet another Red Gnus Feature Request...

[Steven L Baur]

>>>>> "d" == d hall <dhall@illusion.apk.net> writes:

d> I had gnus and netscape running at the same time *shiver* and over the din
d> of my computer switching to swap space, I thought of having the message
d> mini-buf displaying what Gnus "can do" with an outlined button.

The XEmacs toolbar already works this way.  I would assume the same
sort of thing can be used on buttonized text as well.

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Re: Yet another Red Gnus Feature Request...

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com> writes:

> d> I had gnus and netscape running at the same time *shiver* and over the din
> d> of my computer switching to swap space, I thought of having the message
> d> mini-buf displaying what Gnus "can do" with an outlined button.
> 
> The XEmacs toolbar already works this way.  I would assume the same
> sort of thing can be used on buttonized text as well.

I don't know, actually.  How would one do that?

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Re: Yet another Red Gnus Feature Request...

[Steven L Baur]

>>>>> "Lars" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:

Lars> Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com> writes:
d> I had gnus and netscape running at the same time *shiver* and over the din
d> of my computer switching to swap space, I thought of having the message
d> mini-buf displaying what Gnus "can do" with an outlined button.
>> 
>> The XEmacs toolbar already works this way.  I would assume the same
>> sort of thing can be used on buttonized text as well.

Lars> I don't know, actually.  How would one do that?

It's easy, this is Emacs.

(set-extent-property extent 'help-echo "String to display in minibuf")

This requires prim/mode-motion.el and some hook setting to work, but
is already loaded and ready if you have the toolbar enabled.  The only
documentation I could find was the source code itself.

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Re: Yet another Red Gnus Feature Request...

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com> writes:

> It's easy, this is Emacs.
> 
> (set-extent-property extent 'help-echo "String to display in minibuf")

Or rather, that is XEmacs.  :-)

I've now added this to the Red Gnus todo list.

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