Subject: Re: bug#39246: 26.3; more documentation needed for Pointer Shape

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2020 16:50:55 +0200

[email-masked] writes:

> I checked pointer shapes on my Windows PC.
>     SYMBOL    REAL-SHAPE
>     text      Like a serif glyph of 'I'
>     arrow     north-west arrow
>     hand      up pointing hand
>     vdrag     north-west arrow(same as 'arrow)
>     hdrag     right-left arrow
>     nhdrag    up-down arrow
>     modeline  north-west arrow(same as 'arrow)
>     hourglass rotating ring
> 'text shape is described in info (elisp)Pointer Shape.
> 'arrow, 'hand and 'hdrag shapes are predictable.
> 'vdrag, 'modeline, 'hourglass and 'nhdrag shapes are not predictable.
> They need to be described more in info.
>
> Especially, 'nhdrag shape is not referred to in info.
> It is referred to in help C-h v void-text-area-pointer.
>
> 'hand shape is used for the default shape of mouse-sensitive areas.
> It should be described in info (elisp)Special Properties and
> (elisp)Image Descriptors.
>
> 'hand shape is different from the system pointer for link selection.

Could you suggest a the additional text to describe the missing
descriptions?  A patch to frames.texi would be preferred...

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