From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Showing eldoc tips using Popup/Tooltip Windows Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:19:34 +0200 Message-ID: <877hvf9m61.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1254410481 24108 80.91.229.12 (1 Oct 2009 15:21:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 15:21:21 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 01 17:21:14 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 1MtNSs-0005wM-Uw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:21:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56125 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MtNSs-0006nn-D0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:21:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MtNRy-0006eR-Bp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:20:10 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MtNRt-0006e3-Dt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:20:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=57660 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MtNRt-0006e0-Ao for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:20:05 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:48339) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MtNRs-0006VL-Pe for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:20:05 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1MtNRn-0005Wc-4m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:19:59 +0200 Original-Received: from p54af2762.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([84.175.39.98]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:19:59 +0200 Original-Received: from tassilo by p54af2762.dip0.t-ipconnect.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:19:59 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p54af2762.dip0.t-ipconnect.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:CWKbYpoMrFKemHdMFQHH+G8YYTI= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:68602 Archived-At: Nordlöw writes: Hi! > What are informational message/tooltip popup-windows called in emacs > and how do I use them? ,----[ C-h f tooltip-show RET ] | tooltip-show is a compiled Lisp function in `tooltip.el'. | | (tooltip-show TEXT &optional USE-ECHO-AREA) | | Show a tooltip window displaying TEXT. | | Text larger than `x-max-tooltip-size' is clipped. | | If the alist in `tooltip-frame-parameters' includes `left' and `top' | parameters, they determine the x and y position where the tooltip | is displayed. Otherwise, the tooltip pops at offsets specified by | `tooltip-x-offset' and `tooltip-y-offset' from the current mouse | position. | | Optional second arg USE-ECHO-AREA non-nil means to show tooltip | in echo area. `---- Bye, Tassilo