From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stephen Berman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: I'd like Emacs to display a big (but short) "pop up" text Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2017 11:57:29 +0200 Message-ID: <87r2wmbcvq.fsf@rosalinde> References: <87o9rqlkm4.fsf@jane> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1502186288 29324 195.159.176.226 (8 Aug 2017 09:58:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2017 09:58:08 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list To: Marcin Borkowski Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 08 11:58:02 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1df1Gz-0007HM-TW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Aug 2017 11:58:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41608 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1df1H6-000339-66 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Aug 2017 05:58:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35369) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1df1Gh-00032p-I2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Aug 2017 05:57:44 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1df1Gd-0007JP-GB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Aug 2017 05:57:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.17.20]:54903) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1df1Gd-0007Io-4k for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Aug 2017 05:57:39 -0400 Original-Received: from rosalinde ([83.135.7.87]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx101 [212.227.17.168]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0MDE6y-1drAMI24Lc-00GdPQ; Tue, 08 Aug 2017 11:57:30 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87o9rqlkm4.fsf@jane> (Marcin Borkowski's message of "Tue, 08 Aug 2017 07:00:19 +0200") X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:g6HO7bLRwfxnC7kWGSU8AUA6yXrwhDl7av9vRVzLeaDw7ULoGq/ Zs870VIsLL1spziFVFzEduSGm6YdhWApQ7f1GdYZky996dJ522wgAHOwIXZFfDr8LB93Qqs daumzS16YVgWYB2I0GH8F+Kjy4EYrRBFS24nJUDoobq+5w/A/ORTkjgyy5AjZMfwWyM/+Eo 4nzL4fosCjsiS47ASXRlA== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:KlPS5c/cekA=:ulGiVWBVl1pmZDFLGEiW6P HrFLibq6xObkfIMI3Qv1CPTqPYiKidwVe/iroscqfouTBHhJF2qJx70+JVwGo1Gm0eRhHW5dE XJAoQkTHX0yFGMNacvtrdiQXlFNZEeuD+1fbaLfQzVch22BRiyz8e++JYXRmOP2i3HfullHQ4 A28WEy7jEV+88Nk0UGMVE8XPzAuZXJ3v7ghWOgjTvxa7NByX56J2IogNqLFJFzbNxeGNeFpS8 6aJ0H0NfOV8AryYXm5KWWxbURIj/DfvqQDaflROkHITfH5WkAfgJcUPGaREOvHlQrE8JwMni1 uQ/OJxv3bMUMj2eF5IDbKJFPFwEi0VkzA+TnSgGCriujrNaNrqwGXNu0e/6E0CIYPzUIyMBs/ +YYqwgHom9CgK6Ouwaotpuhgk+lqZJZNsF1DbLCuM8WpWNfexDTGXkFCv6Ht+CVKQ4r/8tiRT thDRHYozIvOK4+fdNShzcNg6gnU6mDQxIpLPXc5ppnGHdNVGSSA1wD59OAPy7pL5TbSEBPJpD Prhy0MxipU926fUNBwcl22Ps0olzwIu/Z8vQgM4m8BY4sz7jzz9rR/ZnXZ/ERq3UjcnkDIQEr lmenkAnTghGoajpNKAalKUHdZxKmzLKRtqFZwhIzpbdgtGsIazc8aPXMsHSPeFMv7CKx6XQeY NMLbuMifth233iXtAvRpaLFgGNiR9k+Ol3FsK2GRnDB7WjapZiyY4orfnkQAb/KVeqtpe5s5e JggmD7//ZQCkcEu81XatnhXz+7shSF4po7ibPPzxVIGdsqKN+HypC0D57BDF98n8rFHwnZHx X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 212.227.17.20 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:113959 Archived-At: On Tue, 08 Aug 2017 07:00:19 +0200 Marcin Borkowski 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