Re: Emacs 21 font issues and manual window manipulation.

[Kevin A. Burton]

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address@hidden (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> address@hidden (Kevin A. Burton) writes:
> 
> > Yes... but where do I get the integer value for left and top?
> > 
> > This is how I am currently trying to set the tooltip but I have no
> > reliable way to get these values.
> 
> It seems that you want to pop up the tooltip near the mouse pointer;

... no... next to the point.  Most of the time the mouse will be tool far away.

> but x-show-tip provides arguments DX and DY which are relative to the mouse
> pointer position.  So it seems you don't need the `left' and `top' parameters.
> 
> But maybe I've misunderstood the whole issue.  Or maybe DX and DY are new in
> 21.1.50?

Run the folowing code in Emacs 21.1.1 to see what I mean.

(x-show-tip "Hello World" nil '((top .  10) (left .  10)))

Now imagine that top and left were adjusted so that this was right under the
(point).

This allows you to override the coords of the mouse and do manual positioning.

What I want to do is put the tooltip right next to the (point) so that it helps
me code better.  This is a feature I have *really* missed since my Emacs
migration :)

Kevin

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