On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 10:01:45PM +1030, David Kettler wrote:
> > Even if it were on by default and we used this method of disabling it, it
> > would mean less of a footprint on the GUI for people who didn't use it,
> > and that could be a good thing.  If I am thinking this through correctly,
> > it would mean that instead of a user variable 'hints_information', we
> > would have a global mode that enabled the binding.  Modes are
> > stylistically nice.  Better to use a stylesheet, alone or in a theme, than
> > to use the element.style method on every minibuffer-input, I think,
> > because it's a simple thing to register/unregister a stylesheet.
> 
> Agreed.  I particularly like the idea of using a global mode; it's
> analogous to overlink_mode for mouse selection.
> 
> Regards, David

I'm thinking it would actually be two modes, because there has to be one
mode to provide the general mechanism of minibuffer annotation, and a
second one specific to hinting.  The general one would enable the xbl
binding, and the hinting-specific one would would do what
hints_information does now.  The hinting-specific one would automatically
enable the general one as needed.  Sound right?

-- 
John Foerch
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