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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: help reading assembly code
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 22:25:42 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv39eh24i8.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 874nyycega.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com

> See asm7090-describe-codop.  You could even do that in a
> post-command-hook, or on mouse or arrow events so that the instructions
> are always explained.  It would also possible to attach tooltips to the
> instructions so that you get the description on a mouse over.

The "canonical" way to do that in Emacs is to set
eldoc-documentation-function buffer-locally.  Then users can choose to
use this by enabling eldoc-mode.


        Stefan


  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-25  2:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.947.1319459367.15868.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-10-24 20:38 ` help reading assembly code Pascal J. Bourguignon
2011-10-25  2:25   ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2011-10-25 15:43 Buchs, Kevin
2011-10-26 14:35 ` Andrea Crotti
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-10-24 12:29 Andrea Crotti
2011-10-26 22:10 ` Peter Münster

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