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bug#139: describe-key vs. widget red tape
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#139: describe-key vs. widget red tape |
Date: |
Mon, 30 Sep 2019 11:25:20 +0300 |
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: jidanni@jidanni.org, 139@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 09:40:07 +0200
>
> > If the action of the button is not clear from the button's label, it
> > should have a help-echo string which describes that.
>
> What the button does may be clear, but it can be somewhat convoluted to
> determine precisely what function is going to end up being run. (This
> is for introspection/debugging purposes.)
I'm not sure introspection/debugging was what the OP had in mind, but
we could perhaps bind something like M-mouse-3 on a button to produce
that information. It wouldn't be easy, though, given how well the
widget library hides that.