Re: [Texmacs-dev] Popup window

[Joris van der Hoeven]

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 05:08:04PM +0200, Michael Lachmann wrote:
> I am getting really envious of other interfaces to R that pop up the  
> arguments that a certain function uses as you type it. So if you type  
> 'read.table(', a popup will show you all arguments to the function  
> read.table.
>
> What would be the best way to implement something like this in TeXmacs? 
> Is it possible for a script to open a popup like the one that appears 
> when you hold the mouse over a widget?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Michael
>
> Below is an example from Komodo Edit.

This should not be exceedingly hard, but I would rather consider
this kind of GUI extensions once we have a stable Qt version.
We would basically need some kind of popup menu at the cursor position.
This would also be useful for balloon help on keywords when typing.

Best wishes, --Joris