From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dave Love Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs 23, Python, epylint, pylint Date: Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:23:34 +0000 Organization: The University of Liverpool Message-ID: <87ws2ahww9.fsf@liv.ac.uk> References: <87ljj29vo0.wl%anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com> Reply-To: fx@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1257143181 12774 80.91.229.12 (2 Nov 2009 06:26:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 06:26:21 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 02 07:26:14 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1N4qMo-0004HO-ET for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:26:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58102 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N4qMn-0001p7-UN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:26:13 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!newsfeed.esat.net!feeder.news.heanet.ie!feed4.jnfs.ja.net!jnfs.ja.net!liv!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pc102091.liv.ac.uk Original-X-Trace: news.liv.ac.uk 1257103414 24606 138.253.102.91 (1 Nov 2009 19:23:34 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@liverpool.ac.uk Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 1 Nov 2009 19:23:34 GMT X-Draft-From: ("gnu.emacs.help" 155805) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ptcAbBsU4xzkwOc+qeqEHCBOaDU= Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:174301 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:14:34 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:69387 Archived-At: Richard Riley writes: > A more careful read of the flymake wiki page > > Http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/FlyMake > > Provided the answer: > > http://paste.lisp.org/display/60617 [Gross code elided.] What's wrong with just adding this to `post-command-hook'? (defun my-flymake-show-help () (when (get-char-property (point) 'flymake-overlay) (let ((help (get-char-property (point) 'help-echo))) (if help (message "%s" help))))) (It would be better if overlays supported the `point-entered' property.) > (I think this should be default behaviour as most Emacs users balk from > using the mouse :-;) [I'm surprised if that's the case and if anyone actually knows.]