changeset 30500:1d1ab0dfb528

:help-echo needn't be a string.
author Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
date Thu, 27 Jul 2000 13:12:14 +0000
parents e603bf6a21ad
children 2c2ed2dae36f
files lispref/customize.texi
diffstat 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/lispref/customize.texi	Thu Jul 27 13:11:10 2000 +0000
+++ b/lispref/customize.texi	Thu Jul 27 13:12:14 2000 +0000
@@ -870,8 +870,11 @@
 
 @item :help-echo @var{motion-doc}
 When you move to this item with @code{widget-forward} or
-@code{widget-backward}, it will display the string @var{motion-doc}
-in the echo area.
+@code{widget-backward}, it will display the string @var{motion-doc} in
+the echo area.  In addition, @var{motion-doc} is used as the mouse
+@code{help-echo} string and may actually be a function or form evaluated
+to yield a help string as for @code{help-echo} text properties.
+@xref{Text help-echo}.
 
 @item :match @var{function}
 Specify how to decide whether a value matches the type.  The