From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: I'd like Emacs to display a big (but short) "pop up" text Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2017 16:44:43 -0700 Message-ID: <87k22cwbkk.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87o9rqlkm4.fsf@jane> <9efa4956-284e-4846-8602-1782b52874e8@default> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1502322410 10733 195.159.176.226 (9 Aug 2017 23:46:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2017 23:46:50 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 10 01:46:46 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 1dfagT-00029y-2C for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Aug 2017 01:46:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50319 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dfagW-00061d-8N for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Aug 2017 19:46:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57987) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dfafx-00061M-2a for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Aug 2017 19:46:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dfaft-0005zl-6l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Aug 2017 19:46:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=38602 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dfafs-0005zI-W3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Aug 2017 19:46:05 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dfafk-00004r-4f for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Aug 2017 01:45:56 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:sekAnmaAZ3+IcrfhZSUgDz47CSw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:113964 Archived-At: Drew Adams writes: >> 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. > > I created ‘showkey.el’ for just this. It shows keys and other events > as you use them. That looks perfect, thanks for the link, and the library!