From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Jan D." Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Tooltipping enhancement request Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 23:03:59 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200403041817.i24IHC08001260@projectile.siege-engine.com> <20040310.145625.98873014.jet@gyve.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v612) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1079152840 21587 80.91.224.253 (13 Mar 2004 04:40:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 04:40:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, eric@siege-engine.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 13 05:40:33 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B20wr-0008G7-00 for ; Sat, 13 Mar 2004 05:40:33 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B20wq-0008Hm-00 for ; Sat, 13 Mar 2004 05:40:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B1xYW-0003Cj-3B for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 20:03:12 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B1fVX-0008Ug-JZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 00:46:55 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B1YIh-0005aH-5K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 17:05:42 -0500 Original-Received: from [213.115.192.53] (helo=mail2.norrnet.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B1YIg-0005ZZ-B1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 17:05:10 -0500 Original-Received: from stubby.bodenonline.com (stubby.bodenonline.com [193.201.16.94]) by mail2.norrnet.net (BorderWare MXtreme Mail Firewall) with ESMTP id DDBCD8151E; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 23:04:12 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from accessno42.bodenonline.com (accessno42.bodenonline.com [193.201.16.44]) by stubby.bodenonline.com (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id i2BMtHTY013630; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 23:55:19 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20040310.145625.98873014.jet@gyve.org> Original-To: Masatake YAMATO X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.612) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:20375 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:20375 > About VisualBasic like completion selection, I think it is better > to extend the behavior of popup-menu. The popup menu of emacs > configured > with --with-gtk can do > 1) select a menu item with cursor keys, and > 2) pass other keys to the behind buffer and close the popup menu > itself. > > The biggest problem is that there is no elisp function to pop down the > popup menu. (Correct me if I write wroing.) So you cannot use the popup > menu with timers. No, you are not wrong. Can you elaborate more exactly what you want to do, and why a timer is needed? There may be some other means to do what you want. Jan D.