From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Possible to show tooltip at (point) ???? Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 07:55:47 +0100 Message-ID: References: <30c6373b0812272248y7c51447ax15bcea34d8cce132@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1230447364 22434 80.91.229.12 (28 Dec 2008 06:56:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 06:56:04 +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 07:57:12 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 1LGpaJ-0001KV-FO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Dec 2008 07:57:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54873 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LGpZ6-00067J-A3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Dec 2008 01:55:56 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LGpZ1-00067E-VI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Dec 2008 01:55:51 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LGpZ0-000672-Gt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Dec 2008 01:55:50 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36058 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LGpZ0-00066z-B6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Dec 2008 01:55:50 -0500 Original-Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.155]:20067) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LGpYz-0006yP-TA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Dec 2008 01:55:50 -0500 Original-Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id l26so1696353fgb.30 for ; Sat, 27 Dec 2008 22:55:48 -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:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=JgxWWtwCdBL1aCsP2XeF6w+xnzDRqnZRx2rDv7lqMAw=; b=WP4ipyG9jxBnxHWQzx0UrTSbzyveF96eVxoxPzwSKH++DpNW0ctbZ2LkaTb2cOPU9K rO1As1BQpDB5dZ0+w6y3chDN2/XQ9Ea1mDY4vlLD8h81c+BeRgd/EFYXk4BAh9CBRTT+ uuPDaRGWov4YZgpDNgBgj7bZ7dzIgOTxhULqM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=yCOfjpVCzi1iMFGvhv+JQ2OQUcThYRCb4uUGN+j0MwoOolBJ7jV6diddaPBCw3d5kr L6q5h6PI6TqfaG4P/IbGvQSz7JoXnSceGpPymCth7XKBj6gfUyHVnoHMeb9KEuxvdC5q C9YZ/f36WyhrWU5oJFCmWwKN/IBWqPBAeEcpo= Original-Received: by 10.86.4.2 with SMTP id 2mr7359861fgd.4.1230447348016; Sat, 27 Dec 2008 22:55:48 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.86.35.9 with HTTP; Sat, 27 Dec 2008 22:55:47 -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:107324 Archived-At: On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 7:48 AM, Kevin Burton wrote: > 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 There is a point-to-coord in ourcomments-util in nXhtml, but it does not always work correctly.