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: Mon, 07 Aug 2017 22:29:04 -0700 Message-ID: <87shh24ogv.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87o9rqlkm4.fsf@jane> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1502170214 20461 195.159.176.226 (8 Aug 2017 05:30:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2017 05:30:14 +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 Tue Aug 08 07:30:01 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 1dex5X-0004LV-PH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Aug 2017 07:29:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40838 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dex5c-0002VC-Dq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Aug 2017 01:30:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41424) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dex56-0002Td-N2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Aug 2017 01:29:33 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dex51-0000mE-Vw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Aug 2017 01:29:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=38181 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dex51-0000ln-Pl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Aug 2017 01:29:23 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dex4t-0002NE-6K for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Aug 2017 07:29:15 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:TU/gokgAAyfF0ffAHMorwxkAZWM= 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:113957 Archived-At: Marcin Borkowski writes: > Hi all, > > 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. > > Any ideas? I've wanted this too -- it seems like this is something alert.el would be good for. It would be particularly nice to be able to filter on key prefixes, or major mode commands, or something like that. Maybe a post-command-hook that examines the function called, and decides whether to pop up a key-press display or not...