Re: Announcing introspector.el, for examining faces, extents, etc.
* Stephen J Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org> writes:
- frame-utils.el, providing two functions to create frames with
minimal decorations, such as would be useful with tooltips and the
like. Unfortunately, under 21.4 I've found a focus problem (the tip
frame should not get keyboard focus, but it does) and a decoration
problem (I can't get the title bar to disappear).
Neither of these are a problem under SXEmacs. Lookie...
<http://www.sxemacs.org/~steve/tmp/funky.png>
- introspector.el
Haven't looked at this yet, but definitely will.
Install it as usual. Sorry for the inconvenience, but you'll
have to
explicitly load the introspector library. This does two invasive
things:
(1) it binds C-h = to `buffer-position-introspector', and
How about `C-h +'? It's currently undefined, and the `+' kinda suggests
"more info". Though I'm not sure that a key-binding is appropriate. I
understand that it is just a frame and you can pop up a new frame via
the keyboard, but this one gives the illusion of being a tooltip thing
or a dialog. Maybe a mouse binding would be better?
Possibly this should be set up as a minor mode (comments welcome),
and
then it would be no problem to have autoloads for the user-visible
entry points.
Good idea, I think.
Testing and suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I think it
would be appropriate to put frame-utils in xemacs-base, if we can work
out the issues with 21.4.
A couple of years back, you patched balloon-help so its frames would be
undecorated. I know that patch went into SXEmacs, but I'm not sure if
it made it into XEmacs 21.4. I bet you another beer that that patch
will fix frame-utils for 21.4. :-)
I'm of two minds about introspector, it could go into
xemacs-devel,
but maybe it should go into xemacs-base so that all users can use it
to gather information for bug reports.
I'd put them both in the same package. Doesn't really matter which,
-base or -devel seem equally appropriate to me.
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