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From: bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan Bockgård)
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: supporting mouse-entered, mouse-left
Date: Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:05:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tz0sfqyv.fsf@dd.chalmers.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwvd47gr7l5.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> I would like to highlight certain identifiers (such as all uses
>> of a particular local variable in a function) simultaneously
>> when the mouse enters any of them.
>
>> I've scoured the documentation, and I don't see a way to
>> accomplish this feat.
>
> You can probably do it via track-mouse, but it's likely not going to
> satisfy your needs quite like you want to.

The help-echo property + show-help-function can do it too, kind of.
(help-echo alone gives you `mouse-entered').





      reply	other threads:[~2009-07-31 22:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-31  7:13 supporting mouse-entered, mouse-left Steve Yegge
2009-07-31 15:38 ` Drew Adams
2009-07-31 15:48   ` Steve Yegge
2009-07-31 16:48   ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-07-31 16:42     ` Drew Adams
2009-07-31 20:23       ` Drew Adams
2009-07-31 20:57         ` Steve Yegge
2009-08-01  0:56           ` Drew Adams
2009-08-01  5:52             ` Steve Yegge
2009-08-01  7:26               ` Drew Adams
2009-08-01  4:07           ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-08-01  6:04             ` Steve Yegge
2009-08-01  7:18               ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-07-31 19:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-07-31 22:05   ` Johan Bockgård [this message]

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