Re: Balloon help and AUCTeX
"Robert Pluim" <rpluim(a)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