Balloon help and AUCTeX [was: displaying variables in gdb mode]

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

>>>>> "David" == David Kastrup <dak at gnu.org> writes:

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

    David> "does not cause the Windows port to crash".

    >> Don't recall hearing of that before, either.  :-( You wouldn't
    >> happen to be able to point to a debugger stack trace, would
    >> you?

    David> At the danger of repeating myself: I don't use XEmacs, and
    David> I don't use Windows.  And if at a customer site an editing
    David> system happens to crash, I won't start compiling and
    David> debugging stuff there.

By my count, that's 3 of 5 bugs we can close or shelve: two bugs
solved in my last post, this one unfixable in any reasonable horizon
due to lack of user cooperation.

Continuing the count-down, I wrote that it should be easy to solve the
pop-down-on-event issue.  Turns out it's half-solved already---any
command will pop down the help.  I also know how to get it to pop down
on motion or a non-command keystroke, but I don't know if that's
desirable in all cases---I'd like to keep the option open, but how to
handle that will depend on the different use cases.

So that's 3.75 out of 5 bugs that we can close, simply on the basis of
getting you to rant a little more specificly.

Please give me the other specifications I requested, so that we can
close the "gets in the way" bug.

With 4.75 out of 5 bugs closed, you can reenable balloon-help, and we
can start on the process of making it work more than merely
"acceptably well" for AUCTeX.

How about that, David?

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