From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Kevin Burton" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Possible to show tooltip at (point) ???? Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 22:48:23 -0800 Message-ID: <30c6373b0812272248y7c51447ax15bcea34d8cce132@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_118934_11078403.1230446903952" X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1230446920 21771 80.91.229.12 (28 Dec 2008 06:48:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 06:48:40 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 28 07:49:48 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LGpT8-0000CG-Is for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Dec 2008 07:49:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45400 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LGpRu-0004wJ-U1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Dec 2008 01:48:30 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LGpRq-0004uP-O4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Dec 2008 01:48:26 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LGpRp-0004tX-7v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Dec 2008 01:48:25 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35555 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LGpRp-0004tU-2C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Dec 2008 01:48:25 -0500 Original-Received: from yw-out-1718.google.com ([74.125.46.157]:5049) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LGpRo-0006KJ-LL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Dec 2008 01:48:24 -0500 Original-Received: by yw-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 9so1449062ywk.66 for ; Sat, 27 Dec 2008 22:48:24 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender :to:subject:mime-version:content-type:x-google-sender-auth; bh=kVXaOUvmcUPG5tuLKDxwrxV5C8TVS1zVz9RdMWREjM4=; b=WqUlWajNrpUADH4CIvM+dlsQqFqwq+o7XFA2Jvh1j9V2krXvKZs70JM832CTEIUK5L 8LgUQUysF4eT4w5vlNF+GWbQH2No/qeJHAdGjyA6Lr3wq165O281QS5dOcJqFHc4jhjD FyUV36QjMw90Vz8R06MpYB+OKu9dl3XKOi/3g= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:mime-version:content-type :x-google-sender-auth; b=MtLXyOtHph1mfOsbxiFFh/I4ToCYyg8yMmmhtfiPfq6DZwFnj1eaDn922y0LzHuDFl HrK00Ow67I9zLKtKaVJ8agtWLHw6XkxW1CFs8tuxAY9fdOa5ml+bCxPmoO6Z7dLgxIVL JNl6js9hTHw5P2pQPP7Orf8NMHrlIDKMdJC0s= Original-Received: by 10.90.68.20 with SMTP id q20mr6063145aga.11.1230446903953; Sat, 27 Dec 2008 22:48:23 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.90.98.6 with HTTP; Sat, 27 Dec 2008 22:48:23 -0800 (PST) X-Google-Sender-Auth: 9e0f9d51334fdf36 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:107323 Archived-At: ------=_Part_118934_11078403.1230446903952 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline A few years ago (has it REALLY been that long?) I was playing with x-show-tooltip so that I could display a tooltip at the given point. I was mostly interested in this so that I could build just in time code completion. This way one could have a function call: foo( And type something like C-enter to lookup the previous symbol and show method argument documentation in a tooltip. ..... anyway. I needed away to have x-show-tooltip generate under (point). Is this possible? If I remember I can manually position the tooltip if I know the on screen x/y pixel cartesian position of (point) but I don't think this was possible either. This was with an early version Emacs 21... Anyone know a solution to this? Have features been added to Emacs 22 to enable this? Kevin -- Founder/CEO Spinn3r.com Location: San Francisco, CA AIM/YIM: sfburtonator Skype: burtonator Work: http://spinn3r.com ------=_Part_118934_11078403.1230446903952 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline
A few years ago (has it REALLY been that long?) I was playing with x-show-tooltip so that I could display a tooltip at the given point.

I was mostly interested in this so that I could build just in time code completion.  This way one could have a function call:

foo( 

And type something like C-enter to lookup the previous symbol and show method argument documentation in a tooltip.

..... anyway. 

I needed away to have x-show-tooltip generate under (point).  Is this possible?

If I remember I can manually position the tooltip if I know the on screen x/y pixel cartesian position of (point) but I don't think this was possible either.

This was with an early version Emacs 21...  Anyone know a solution to this?  Have features been added to Emacs 22 to enable this?

Kevin


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