Re: display value of links in mini-buffer (was: Re: bug archiving policy)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2020 19:04:22 +0700
> Cc: Boruch Baum <boruch_baum@gmx.com>, Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> > That could be annoying in some modes that have a lot of these
> > help-echo properties.  For example, in Dired you will see a lot of
> > traffic in the echo-area if the help-echo text at point will be
> > displayed there, because point generally moves there between file
> > names, each of which has a help-echo on it.
> 
> Yes, because the Dired 'help-echo text is pretty useless:
> 
>     mouse-1: visit this file in other window

You are entitled to your opinion, but others might disagree.  And
there are other similar modes that provide the same "useless"
help-echo, for example many modes that list buffers in a table.