Icicles: Tooltip help

Icicles: Tooltip help

[Memnon Anon]

Hi,

today, I've been browsing man pages with M-x man.
I suddenly noticed that I can get some info on the candidates with
icicle by using the mouse; C-M-RET however said [no help].

Is there a way to get to that info the mouse provides with a keybinding?
I usually don't use the mouse when in emacs and totally missed that
feature.

Memnon

RE: Icicles: Tooltip help

[Drew Adams]

> today, I've been browsing man pages with M-x man.
> I suddenly noticed that I can get some info on the candidates with
> icicle by using the mouse; C-M-RET however said [no help].
> 
> Is there a way to get to that info the mouse provides with a 
> keybinding? I usually don't use the mouse when in emacs and
> totally missed that feature.

I'll follow up with you off list, Memnon.  The short answer is that `C-M-RET'
(and `C-M-down' etc.) should give you help on completion candidates, just like
`C-M-mouse-2' does.  I'll need to know more about what you're doing, Emacs
version, etc.

Re: Icicles: Tooltip help

[Memnon Anon]

Hi Drew, 
"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

> I'll follow up with you off list, Memnon.  The short answer is that `C-M-RET'
> (and `C-M-down' etc.) should give you help on completion candidates, just like
> `C-M-mouse-2' does.  I'll need to know more about what you're doing, Emacs
> version, etc.

I should have been more precise in what I see:

a) "M-x man RET"
b) "sort S-TAB" to get completions for all man pages having sort in them
c) If I put the mouse on tsort(1), a tooltip comes up saying:
   "Perform topological sort". For wrap-and-sort(1), it says:
   "wrap long lines and sort items in Debian packaging files.
d) Using C-M-Mouse 2 or C-M-RET on these items  says [No Help]

I usually don't use the mouse and keep it banished to the lower-right
corner; I found out about this feature by accident. Again, this tooltip
comes by just hoovering with my mouse over the item, no mouse button is
pressed. How can I get that feature without a mouse?

(emacs-version)
"GNU Emacs 23.3.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, 
GTK+ Version 2.24.8)\n of 2012-01-29 on murphy, modified by Debian"

Latest icicles from emacswiki.

I tried to send this via "icicle-send-bug-report" (I thought this may
give you some info on my setup), which brought up emacs-w3m.

That complained:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
No such anchor: '%20that%20you%20can%20use%20to%20identify%20it.%0A%0AEmacs%20version:%20GNU%20Emacs%2023.3.1%20(i486-pc-linux-gnu,%20GTK+%20Version%202.24.8)%0A%20of%202012-01-29%20on%20murphy,%20modified%20by%20Debian.
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Thanks for listening, and again, I am amazed by your responsiveness :).

Memnon