Balloon help and AUCTeX

[David Kastrup]

"Robert Pluim" <rpluim at gmail.com> writes:

>     You won't get stack traces for functionality that is disabled by
>     default and mostly useful to beginners.
>
>     The people that would be able to send useful reports and debug the
>     problem are not the kind of people who would think it useful enough to
>     enable it.  And those who would benefit from it usually don't have
>     enough skills or knowledge to actually enable it themselves.
>
>     Enable it by default, and you'll get the reports.  And if you don't
>     get any, the change presumably was good.
>
> Just for fun I tried turning on balloon-help-mode in 21.4.19 native
> Windows, and whilst it's decidely sub-optimal [1], I haven't gotten
> it to crash yet.  I'll leave it on for a while and see what happens.
>
> Robert
>
> [1] It creates an invisible dummy frame to act as the parent of the
> ballon-help window, however that frame does not stay invisible, nor
> can it be deleted. Oh, and the window containing the text is too
> small, maybe by 1 character.

Thanks.  It really takes an actual user to get to useful reports
instead of mere whining (my main contribution).  I'd think that [1]
already would be worth a detailed report, independent of whether one
can actually create a crash.  It certainly contains more useful and
likely technical correct information than what I deliver.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum