From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Possible to show tooltip at (point) ???? Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 04:05:45 -0500 Message-ID: <8763l47jpy.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> References: <30c6373b0812272248y7c51447ax15bcea34d8cce132@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1230455154 2111 80.91.229.12 (28 Dec 2008 09:05:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 09:05:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Kevin Burton" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 28 10:07:01 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 1LGrbv-0003Jx-V6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Dec 2008 10:07:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47156 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LGraf-0006wE-Vw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Dec 2008 04:05:42 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LGrab-0006w7-45 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Dec 2008 04:05:37 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LGraa-0006vu-8G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Dec 2008 04:05:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37004 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LGraa-0006vr-5n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Dec 2008 04:05:36 -0500 Original-Received: from cyd.mit.edu ([18.115.2.24]:38412) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LGraZ-0007fI-L2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Dec 2008 04:05:35 -0500 Original-Received: by cyd.mit.edu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 30D8257E217; Sun, 28 Dec 2008 04:05:45 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <30c6373b0812272248y7c51447ax15bcea34d8cce132@mail.gmail.com> (Kevin Burton's message of "Sat, 27 Dec 2008 22:48:23 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:107326 Archived-At: "Kevin Burton" writes: > 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 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. I think it is possible with some hackery--you have to adjust tooltip-frame-parameters before calling tooltip-show. If I'm not mistaken, doc-view mode uses a similar approach to display search results within pdfs.