Subject: Re: bug#6321: 24.0.50; eldoc-documentation-function only called when changing line

From: Thierry Volpiatto <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:28:38 +0200

Tassilo Horn <[email-masked]> writes:

> On Tuesday 01 June 2010 13:21:25 Štěpán Němec wrote:
>
> Hi Štěpán,
>
>> > (defun tg-eldoc-init ()
>> >   (set (make-local-variable 'eldoc-documentation-function)
>> >        'tg-documentation-function)
>> >   (add-hook 'after-save-hook
>> >             'tg-init-schema nil t)
>> >   (tg-init-schema))
>> >
>> > This worked very nice some time ago, but now my documentation
>> > function is only called if point changes the line, but not on point
>> > movement on the current line.
>> 
>> An idea: did you check that `eldoc-message-commands' contains the
>> commands after which you expect Eldoc to show the info? Maybe the
>> recent bidi changes could affect this (i.e., some commands were
>> renamed IIRC)?
>
> Indee, you are totally right.  I use the arrow keys quite often for
> navigating in the current line, and nowadays they are not equivalent to
> C-g and C-b anymore.  The former is left/right-char, while the latter is
> forward/backward-char.
>
> So the left/right-commands should be added to `eldoc-message-commands',
> too.
Indeed, i confirm that

,----
| (eldoc-add-command  "right-arrow-command") 
| (eldoc-add-command "left-arrow-command")
`----

solve problem.
Thanks.

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Thierry Volpiatto
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