Re: function insight tooltip

[Jeffery B. Rancier]

Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com> writes:

> Finn J Johnsen <finn@_mobitech.no> writes:
> 
> > I'm used to "function insight" -tooltip (or whatever it's called?)
> > which you get in Borlands products. You get the functionparametes as
> > tootip as you write the functioncall, and I've became painfully used
> > to it.
> >
> > Is this possible in Emacs (for Windows even) ?
> 
> For which programming language?  
> 
> `eldoc-mode' does it for Emacs Lisp, and the ilisp package provides it
> for Common Lisp.  They don't actually use tooltips, but display the
> information in the mini-buffer.
> 
> Something similar might be available for other languages -- for Java you
> should probably look at the JDE package.

Take a look at Kevin Burton's site,
http://www.peerfear.org/rss/permalink/2002/11/22/1038017513-Emacs_tooltipatpoint_Implementation.shtml.

Jeff