From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Mathias Dahl" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Possible to show tooltip at (point) ???? Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 18:07:45 +0100 Message-ID: <7dbe73ed0812280907u29713047h42de5a169454a3a7@mail.gmail.com> References: <30c6373b0812272248y7c51447ax15bcea34d8cce132@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1230484117 1771 80.91.229.12 (28 Dec 2008 17:08:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 17:08:37 +0000 (UTC) To: "Kevin Burton" , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 28 18:09:43 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 1LGz8w-0003AJ-2T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Dec 2008 18:09:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60152 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LGz7i-00024X-PR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Dec 2008 12:08:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LGz7E-0001qN-Vh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Dec 2008 12:07:49 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LGz7E-0001q4-CZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Dec 2008 12:07:48 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41691 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LGz7E-0001py-8E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Dec 2008 12:07:48 -0500 Original-Received: from yw-out-1718.google.com ([74.125.46.154]:9143) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LGz7D-0000Qm-9l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Dec 2008 12:07:47 -0500 Original-Received: by yw-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 9so1483903ywk.66 for ; Sun, 28 Dec 2008 09:07:46 -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:to :subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=8MYumo/4u78CjqlW/V8ZVhLgXBUZgA54VIuClHJemmc=; b=Bh1iG/aP5j0RIjXuPpqWC3dFpVYrL7zSg4AZd/6ArjQjEe37awU/eXn0qldlKHI6Lg i8n98xFFoUCEbW+KcMwt7mEyp1t+WtHH+ZYLQ0ldZJeZ4UGgd+U4t0PNOK04nBWXRP/A vkDy+qGjNxNO8U/IdVfDF1khhwzSUgneCjms8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=u6AGUfDT+ZYicBfopzas8XOmWPFQHJpl8q8W+88cIBiXicwIaxrGXjbHysBjhg6d+w WxePLv7vt+UFefZ9oJI8bnTIpyBucYWSsWcmS4EhiKogQ9+hLYjw5HrXhY7Yp8mJnW+A MKqefF8HSxfFx66KHZrAbgvkkbozyqKiefn9A= Original-Received: by 10.151.103.11 with SMTP id f11mr22875027ybm.49.1230484066075; Sun, 28 Dec 2008 09:07:46 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.151.132.11 with HTTP; Sun, 28 Dec 2008 09:07:45 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <30c6373b0812272248y7c51447ax15bcea34d8cce132@mail.gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline 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:107335 Archived-At: I am a user of `predictive' which in my opinion has good facilities for showing candidates. I think even that the completion stuff has been factored out in its own package. I think it uses tooltips as one of the options. Why don't you check it out. 2008/12/28, Kevin Burton : > 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 >