Re: Bug in tooltip handling

[Nick Roberts]

 > > 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)

Well I guess it depends which buffers the local hook gets added too.

 > >  > 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?

It might be fine for personalising Emacs but not a general package.  Your
construction above adds the function to the hook at the end.  So, for example,
if that's in a buffer that I'm using for debugging, the tooltips will display
translations of my variable names rather than their values, which might not be
what I want.


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Nick                                           http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob