Re: [TIP] Keeping your summary tidy with balloon help

Re: [TIP] Keeping your summary tidy with balloon help

[Jesper Harder]

Reiner Steib <4uce.02.r.steib@gmx.net> writes:

> From the manual [1] is not clear that `%<<' and `%>>' should read `%«'
> and `%»'. Could we improve this somehow?

The problem is that there's no way to write guillemets in Texinfo.  '«'
happens to work in the Info version, but it doesn't work in the printed
version.  Perhaps some @ifinfo/@iftex-kludge could work?

> Shouldn't `gnus-ballon-face-[0-4]' be defvar'ed as `gnus-face-[0-4]'
> and `gnus-mouse-face-[0-4]'?

Dunno.  Does it make any difference?

>> (defun jh-article-help (window object position)
>>   "Help echo for the summary buffer."
>
> Wouldn't it be nice to have this function predefined as one of
> `gnus-ballon-face-[0-4]'? Then, the user would only have to put
> corresponding the format specifiers in `gnus-summary-line-format'.

Well, one problem is that I don't think the function works in XEmacs
(the arguments supplied to balloon help functions are slightly
different).