Re: Bug in tooltip handling

[Tassilo Horn]

Nick Roberts <address@hidden> writes:

> It returns nil in buffers where GUD tooltips are not meant to work i.e
> when the major-mode is not a member of gud-tooltip-modes.
>
> I think thats the problem of just adding to tooltip-hook. You have a
> list of functions and the last non-nil one wins.

Yeah, so I'm fine with appending my function (locally) to the hook like
this:

(add-hook 'tooltip-hook 'rdictcc-translate-word-open-tooltip t t)

>  > Anyway, I think those event-based tooltips are useful for a lot of
>  > tasks where calculation of the tooltip contents is time-intensive
>  > and should not be performed beforehand. So splitting it out into an
>  > own library `event-tooltip' or so would be a good idea.
>
> Well, it's part of the answer.

??? 

I don't get you here. Part of which answer?

Bye,
Tassilo