From: Richard M. Stallman Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 00:41:34 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Comment change. X-Git-Tag: ttn-vms-21-2-B4~1113 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=bb8c48650e8ef154dd299d7220e66d7dae6e992d;p=emacs.git Comment change. --- diff --git a/src/keyboard.c b/src/keyboard.c index f1a131a6f4e..07b2f991c38 100644 --- a/src/keyboard.c +++ b/src/keyboard.c @@ -2258,12 +2258,16 @@ make_ctrl_char (c) return c; } -/* Display help echo in the echo area. +/* Display the help-echo property of the character after the mouse pointer. + Either show it in the echo area, or call show-help-function to display + it by other means (maybe in a tooltip). - HELP a string means display that string, HELP nil means clear the - help echo. If HELP is a function, call it with OBJECT and POS as - arguments; the function should return a help string or nil for - none. For all other types of HELP evaluate it to obtain a string. + If HELP is nil, that means clear the previous help echo. + + If HELP is a string, display that string. If HELP is a function, + call it with OBJECT and POS as arguments; the function should + return a help string or nil for none. For all other types of HELP, + evaluate it to obtain a string. WINDOW is the window in which the help was generated, if any. It is nil if not in a window.