Re: Reducing mouse-dependency In Emacs.

[Stefan Monnier]

> And the NEWS.  But the text properties would be optional, defaulting
> to `help-echo'.  The reason for a separate `short-help' is that a much
> too large percentage of the help-echo properties are like:
> 
> mouse-2: visit this file in other window

Reminds me of the suggestion I had a while ago to make such help
partly automatic (at least when a `local-map' or `keymap' property
is present, but maybe also when a `mouse-face' is present).

Having it automatic saves work from the coder, but also allows the help
text to be different in the `point-over' than in the `mouse-over' case.


        Stefan