Re: Possible to show tooltip at (point) ????

[Lennart Borgman]

On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 7:48 AM, Kevin Burton <address@hidden> wrote:
> A few years ago (has it REALLY been that long?) I was playing with
> x-show-tooltip so that I could display a tooltip at the given point.
> I was mostly interested in this so that I could build just in time code
> completion.  This way one could have a function call:
> foo(
> And type something like C-enter to lookup the previous symbol and show
> method argument documentation in a tooltip.
> ..... anyway.
> I needed away to have x-show-tooltip generate under (point).  Is this
> possible?
> If I remember I can manually position the tooltip if I know the on screen
> x/y pixel cartesian position of (point) but I don't think this was possible
> either.
> This was with an early version Emacs 21...  Anyone know a solution to this?
>  Have features been added to Emacs 22 to enable this?
> Kevin

There is a point-to-coord in ourcomments-util in nXhtml, but it does
not always work correctly.