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

[Chong Yidong]

"Kevin Burton" <address@hidden> writes:

> 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 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.

I think it is possible with some hackery--you have to adjust
tooltip-frame-parameters before calling tooltip-show.  If I'm not
mistaken, doc-view mode uses a similar approach to display search
results within pdfs.