Re: I'd like Emacs to display a big (but short) "pop up" text

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

>> I'd like to display a "pop up"/"tip", i.e., a short text (a few
>> characters).  The thing is, I want it to be visible: large font,
>> preferably centered on the screen.  My use case is demoing Emacs, and
>> before showing the effects of e.g. C-x 2, I'd like to show
>> a big-lettered "C-x 2" on the screen.  It would be nice to use something
>> like the blocks in M-x tetris to build the letters, or anything else
>> that would clearly show "C-x 2" or whatever keychord I'm showing.
>
> I created ‘showkey.el’ for just this.  It shows keys and other events
> as you use them.

That looks perfect, thanks for the link, and the library!