From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
To: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
Cc: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: I'd like Emacs to display a big (but short) "pop up" text
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2017 11:57:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r2wmbcvq.fsf@rosalinde> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o9rqlkm4.fsf@jane> (Marcin Borkowski's message of "Tue, 08 Aug 2017 07:00:19 +0200")
On Tue, 08 Aug 2017 07:00:19 +0200 Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'd like to display a "pop up"/"tip", i.e., a short text (a few
> characters). The thing is, I want it to be visible: large font,
> preferably centered on the screen. My use case is demoing Emacs, and
> before showing the effects of e.g. C-x 2, I'd like to show
> a big-lettered "C-x 2" on the screen. It would be nice to use something
> like the blocks in M-x tetris to build the letters, or anything else
> that would clearly show "C-x 2" or whatever keychord I'm showing.
>
> Any ideas?
How about tooltip-show with a large face, e.g.:
(set-face-attribute 'tooltip nil :height 4.0
:foreground "white" :background "red")
You'd also have to play with tooltip-frame-parameters to get the
position the way you want.
Steve Berman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-08 9:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-08 5:00 I'd like Emacs to display a big (but short) "pop up" text Marcin Borkowski
2017-08-08 5:29 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-08-08 9:57 ` Stephen Berman [this message]
2017-08-08 12:20 ` Drew Adams
2017-08-09 23:44 ` Eric Abrahamsen
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