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

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: David> "does not cause the Windows port to crash". 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? -- School of Systems and Information Engineering http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.