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Idea: helpful-button-at-point

Open edrx opened this issue 6 years ago • 1 comments

Is there a way to inspect buttons with helpful? I never understood well how buttons work under the lid... I know that I can get some information about the button at point with `M-x describe-text-properties', but the output format is terse and hard to understand...

Thanks in advance! Eduardo Ochs http://angg.twu.net/#eev

P.S.: this is a newbie-ish question! I started playing with helpful just a few hours ago - after a private discussion that started with this message: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2019-12/msg00728.html and now I am starting to add helpful support to eev...

edrx avatar Dec 27 '19 01:12 edrx

The code at https://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/22466 might be a place to start. As of 26.3 it still works, odd though its approach is. It may be a bit outdated, however; I'm not sure it wouldn't be better to work off of the current code in Emacs that grabs the button action when it's pushed, if there are any differences.

ScottFreeCode avatar Jan 16 '20 05:01 ScottFreeCode