Mercurial > emacs
changeset 30164:169802a49fb5
Menu help strings now used.
| author | Dave Love <fx@gnu.org> |
|---|---|
| date | Wed, 12 Jul 2000 15:19:03 +0000 |
| parents | a08e64f89820 |
| children | d7ec5b3caccc |
| files | lispref/keymaps.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/lispref/keymaps.texi Wed Jul 12 15:11:40 2000 +0000 +++ b/lispref/keymaps.texi Wed Jul 12 15:19:03 2000 +0000 @@ -1573,10 +1573,8 @@ (@var{item-string} @var{help-string} . @var{real-binding}) @end example -Currently Emacs does not actually use @var{help-string}; it knows only -how to ignore @var{help-string} in order to extract @var{real-binding}. -In the future we may use @var{help-string} as extended documentation for -the menu item, available on request. +@var{help-string} specifies a ``help-echo'' string to display while the +mouse is on that item. As far as @code{define-key} is concerned, @var{item-string} and @var{help-string} are part of the event's binding. However, @@ -1659,8 +1657,8 @@ not defined at all. @item :help @var{help} -The value of this property, @var{help}, is the extra help string (not -currently used by Emacs). +The value of this property, @var{help}, is the ``help-echo'' string to +display while the mouse is on that item. @item :button (@var{type} . @var{selected}) This property provides a way to define radio buttons and toggle buttons.