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[Henri Lesourd <address@hidden>]

> > > The Xfig interface, while
> > > non-standard, is affected by this only to a lesser degree because there
> > > is
> > > always the box that explains what each mouse button does.
> > >
> > >      
> > That is something missing in TeXmacs, but to improve this,
> > we would need to look at improving the widgets
> >    
>
> A simple and doable solution would be to add a message showing what each
> button function in the status line. For example:
>
> l: move | m: copy | r: delete
>
>  
My concern was that the status line is quite small. This
being said, I definitely agree with you : we should rather
start these kinds of improvements using the status line
as it is now, and then look later at some improvements
in the TeXmacs widgetry.

> This is the solution used by Jfig:
> http://tech-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/applets/jfig/images/screen-editor-annotated.png
>
>  
The two graduation rules are also quite nice, in Jfig.