Re: Adding a tooltip to text that matches a regexp?

[Tassilo Horn]

Raffaele Ricciardi <rfflrccrd@gmail.com> writes:

>>> This adds a "Foo or Bar" tooltip to any occurences of the words foo
>>> or bar in the current buffer.
>>>
>>>    (font-lock-add-keywords nil
>>>      '(("\\<\\(foo\\|bar\\)\\>" 1 '(face nil help-echo "Foo or Bar"))))
>>
>> And I think you will want to add help-echo to
>> `font-lock-extra-managed-props'.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Should I make `font-lock-extra-managed-props' buffer local?

I'd say yes.

Bye,
Tassilo