Subject: bug#77169: [PATCH] New Eldoc function `help-at-pt-eldoc-function'

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2025 13:14:06 +0200

> Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2025 10:40:18 +0100
> From:  Daniel Mendler via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <[email-masked]>
> 
> This patch proposes the addition of a new Eldoc function
> `help-at-pt-eldoc-function'.
> 
> Show help-at-pt string via Eldoc as an alternative to the
> `help-at-pt-display-when-idle' timer.  The help-at-pt timer competes
> with Eldoc for the echo area, such that using both does not work well.
> The new `help-at-pt-eldoc-function' is meant to be added to
> `eldoc-documentation-functions'.

Thanks, but please also reflect this feature in the doc string of
help-at-pt-display-when-idle and in the Emacs user manual (where that
option is described).

Also, shouldn't we have a user option to turn this on in ElDoc?

And what about a NEWS entry?