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Re: [O] Capture the mouse-highlight help-text in a file?
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Nick Dokos |
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Re: [O] Capture the mouse-highlight help-text in a file? |
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Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:17:51 -0400 |
brian powell <address@hidden> wrote:
> * Thanks, Nick--I have been pursuing that idea--maybe just extract the
> regexp, sed/grep etc.
>
> ** But I was just thinking maybe there is a simple way to capture the pop up
> "LINK:
> file:foo.txt balloon" as you put it--into a file or fifo.
>
> *** Then all sorts of things could be done with it--I'm thinking maybe
> OrgMode could be used with
> the lights out/if your blind/screen blinks out---well, OrgMode could be
> partially used...one could
> pipe it to a text-to-speech program for example---and/or logging where the
> mouse has been in an
> OrgMode document.
>
I see - afaik, the balloon appears only on the screen and is not logged
anywhere.
I certainly don't know of any way to capture it as it happens. It seems to
happen
deep in emacs's nether regions (in C code afaict), but I didn't chase it down
too far.
Nick
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Nick Dokos <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> brian powell <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > * I know that this will toggle the mouse-highlight "messages that
> pop-up" when you move a
> mouse over
> > a "LINK: " in OrgMode:
> >
> > (setq mouse-highlight (not mouse-highlight))
> >
> > ** Now, is there a simple way to send the "messages that pop-up" to a
> file?
> >
>
> They are already in a file: the org file that contains the link.
> A link like this [[file:foo.txt][foo]] pops up a LINK: file:foo.txt
> balloon, so a suitable grep/sed combination suffices.
>
> But I suspect that this is not a satisfactory answer: what exactly are
> you trying to do?
>
> Nick
>
> > *** Maybe to a FIFO?
> >
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