From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jeff.rancier@softechnics.com (Jeffery B. Rancier) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: function insight tooltip Date: 06 Dec 2002 14:50:36 -0500 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <3DF04191.6090608@_mobitech.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1039208914 16204 80.91.224.249 (6 Dec 2002 21:08:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 21:08:34 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18KPi3-0004Cf-00 for ; Fri, 06 Dec 2002 22:08:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18KPc0-0001ki-00; Fri, 06 Dec 2002 16:02:16 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18KPbg-0001fS-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Dec 2002 16:01:56 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18KPbd-0001cN-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Dec 2002 16:01:55 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18KOV7-0007hg-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Dec 2002 14:51:05 -0500 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18KOUc-0007gj-00 for ; Fri, 06 Dec 2002 20:50:34 +0100 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18KOUZ-0007gW-00 for ; Fri, 06 Dec 2002 20:50:31 +0100 Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: rrcs-nys-24-97-108-46.biz.rr.com Original-X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1039204231 15820 24.97.108.46 (6 Dec 2002 19:50:31 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 19:50:31 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:4356 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:4356 Jesper Harder writes: > Finn J Johnsen writes: > > > I'm used to "function insight" -tooltip (or whatever it's called?) > > which you get in Borlands products. You get the functionparametes as > > tootip as you write the functioncall, and I've became painfully used > > to it. > > > > Is this possible in Emacs (for Windows even) ? > > For which programming language? > > `eldoc-mode' does it for Emacs Lisp, and the ilisp package provides it > for Common Lisp. They don't actually use tooltips, but display the > information in the mini-buffer. > > Something similar might be available for other languages -- for Java you > should probably look at the JDE package. Take a look at Kevin Burton's site, http://www.peerfear.org/rss/permalink/2002/11/22/1038017513-Emacs_tooltipatpoint_Implementation.shtml. Jeff