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Re: ElDoc Tooltips
From: |
Richard Riley |
Subject: |
Re: ElDoc Tooltips |
Date: |
Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:02:52 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) |
Nordlöw <per.nordlow@gmail.com> writes:
> Has anybody provided a tweak to ElDoc to make it display its prototype
> hint using a tooltip near (usually under) the cursor instead of a
> minibuffer-message?
>
> /Nordlöw
>
I was hoping for something similar and actually started a little while
ago to look at using company-mode's display for this but got
distracted. One thing I did knock up ages ago when trying to learn elisp
was to make eldoc actually tell me something that helped. This shows the
help for a symbol under the point in a dedicated buffer. If you hide it,
toggle twice to make it reappear. POssibly the "eldoc" advice and the main
context help function could form the basis (when rewritten no doubt ;))
for a "proper" tooltip in an overlay perhaps?
,----
| (defun rgr/context-buffer()
| (get-buffer-create "*Help*"))
|
| (defun rgr/toggle-context-help()
| "Turn on or off the context help. Note that if ON and you hide the help
buffer then you need to manually reshow it. A double toggle will make it
reappear"
| (interactive)
| (with-current-buffer (rgr/context-buffer)
| (unless (local-variable-p 'context-help) (set (make-local-variable
'context-help) t))
| (if (setq context-help (not context-help))
| (progn
| (if (not (get-buffer-window (help-buffer)))
| (display-buffer (help-buffer)))))
| (message "Context help %s" (if context-help "ON" "OFF"))))
|
| (global-set-key (kbd "C-c h") 'rgr/toggle-context-help)
|
| (defun rgr/context-help()
| " Display function or variable at point in the *Help* buffer if it is
visible. Default behaviour can be turned off by setting the buffer local
context-help to false"
| (interactive)
|
| (let((helptext nil)( rgr-symbol (symbol-at-point)))(with-current-buffer
(rgr/context-buffer)
| (unless (local-variable-p 'context-help) (set (make-local-variable
'context-help) t))
| (if (and context-help (get-buffer-window (help-buffer)) rgr-symbol )
| (if (fboundp rgr-symbol) (describe-function rgr-symbol)
| (if (boundp rgr-symbol) (describe-variable rgr-symbol))))))
| )
|
| (defadvice eldoc-print-current-symbol-info
| (around eldoc-show-c-tag activate)
| (cond
| ((eq major-mode 'emacs-lisp-mode)(rgr/context-help) ad-do-it)
| ((eq major-mode 'lisp-interaction-mode)(rgr/context-help) ad-do-it)
| ((eq major-mode 'apropos-mode)(rgr/context-help) ad-do-it)
| (t ad-do-it)))
|
|
`----