Fw: displaying variables in gdb mode

[David Kastrup]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:

>>>>>> "David" == David Kastrup <dak at gnu.org> writes:
>
>     David> It would first require a tolerably working balloon help.
>
> "Tolerably working" is not a requirements specification.  What exactly
> do you have in mind?

"Does not get in the way", "does not carry full Window decorations",
"disappears immediately when typing or moving the mouse without
blocking" "pops up without taking CPU time to prepare, thus causing an
inexplicable delay in normal operations before the reason is
apparent", "does not cause the Windows port to crash".

Stuff like that.  Basically putting it into a state where it is more
than of academic interest.  Where people would enable it for actual
work rather than a demonstration.  The preview-latex FAQ states:

    @subsection Why don't I get balloon help like in the screen shots?

    Some users have reported problems with their XEmacs version, so
    balloon help is no longer switched on by default.  Use the
    Preview/Customize menu or @kbd{@key{M-x} customize-variable} in
    order to customize @code{preview-use-balloon-help} to `On'.  This
    only concerns XEmacs: tooltips under @w{GNU Emacs} are enabled by
    default and unproblematic.

In fact, the previous FAQ entry before we changed the default was
quite less complimentary.

"Tolerably working" in my book would imply that there is no reason not
to turn it on by default in XEmacs as distributed.  If you think this
is already the case, then enable balloon-help-mode by default.

tooltip-mode is the default in Emacs, and nobody complains about them
(well, after a recent discussion, tooltips for submenus were removed
since they tend to obscure the subwindows, but that is more or less a
minor detail, and anyway XEmacs does not even have menu tooltips
altogether).

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum