On Thursday, February 2, 2017 at 10:55:36 AM UTC+1, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > For a terminal this will need to work differently. We don't have a > mouse hover event, and it might be tricky to make it work well. But the > balloon could also be triggered in other ways, e.g. a right mouse button > click. Or something on an autocommand.
> Anyway, adding the function to show a balloon in the GUI should be easy, > doing this in the terminal is a bit of a challange. Right. GUI implementation should be fairly straightforward but terminal version could complicate things a little bit. Two different patches would make sense here. On Thursday, February 2, 2017 at 11:14:37 AM UTC+1, Davit Samvelyan wrote: > Take a look to my fork https://github.com/davits/vim you may find it useful > in your endeavors. > It introduces several function to show balloons at need (works only with gtk): > overlayshow(row, col, [list of items], is_pango_markup) > overlaynext() > overlayprev() > overlayclose() > > Here is a small demo > https://files.gitter.im/Valloric/ycmd/l1M8/popup-overlay.gif That's actually a super-set of a feature that I was thinking of. Bram what do you think of this, more generic, approach? -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
