Hi, the documentation for the calltips() function says:
"Returns the new calltip's ID on success, 0 on failure." Unfortunately, this holds only if the mode is "tipText", which is the default mode. Otherwise, 1 is returned on success and 0 on failure, but 1 isn't the calltip's ID in general. A short analysis reveals that this mistake can't really be accidental. The function showMatchingCalltip() is declared as void, although it could easily return the calltip's ID or 0 on failure. The reason is probably that the calltips code was tried to be integrated with the tags code in tags.c, but tags.c isn't really written in an easy-to-extend way. So, the showMatchingCalltip() is called through findAllMatches(), which returns a status number, that is -1 on error, 0 for nothing found, and 1 for something found. However, only the value 0 is actually used. Therefore, I see no harm to change the return values to -2 on error, -1 for nothing found, and some number >= 0 for something found. Then this value can also be used to let the calltip's ID pass through in all cases. I'll make a bug report and attache a diff file. Cheers, Jörg -- NEdit Develop mailing list - [email protected] http://www.nedit.org/mailman/listinfo/develop
