From: John Kitchin <johnrkitchin@gmail.com>
To: "Juan Manuel Macías" <maciaschain@posteo.net>
Cc: orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Footnote tooltips (an attempt)
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2022 08:01:33 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ51ETqn1b9m0cezkAcoZbCnXm4n9xKd3StfLjWP589JRU5q-A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pmndrpet.fsf@posteo.net>
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that is a nice solution. I probably should have read the docstring on
org-footnote-get-definition a little more closely, it has the definition
you need in it!
John
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On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 9:04 PM Juan Manuel Macías <maciaschain@posteo.net>
wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> John Kitchin writes:
>
> > I think this might be a simpler approach. what you want (I think) is
> > to leverage font-lock on tooltips to set a help-echo function instead
> > of a string. You can override org-activate-footnote-links with an
> > advice (which makes it easy to undo of you need). The tooltip function
> > then looks up the tooltip when you ask for it. The 3 pieces are below.
> > the first function looks up and returns a tooltip. the second is a
> > lightly modified version of org-activate-footnote-links which just
> > replaces the footnote reference string with the first function. the
> > last piece is the override advice. you could use a minor mode to
> > toggle the advice on and off.
>
> Thank you very much for your comment and code, which has helped me to
> clarify my ideas. Your approach is in a certain way similar to the last
> version of my attempt, which I attached in the previous message: through
> a first function I get the definition of each note, which is returned as
> a text string. And I also override via `advice-add'
> 'org-activate-footnonte-links' with a new function, which is also
> slightly modified, including a variable that gets the tooltip from the
> first function. The problem is that with my approach the tooltip does
> not appear on the fly, but when the next note is added. I think what my
> first function (the one that gets the footnote definition) was missing
> was the three arguments of your first function: `_win _obj position' and
> the (goto-char position), and pass it as a symbol (not as a variable) to
> the second function that overrides org-activate-footnote-links, as you
> do in your code. Modifying my function from your code, it would look
> something like this:
>
> (defun my-org-fn-get-def (_win _obj position)
> (save-excursion
> (goto-char position)
> (let* ((el (org-element-context))
> (label (org-element-property :label el))
> (def (nth 3 (org-footnote-get-definition label))))
> (when def (concat "Footnonte: " def)))))
>
> And it seems that now the tooltips appear instantly, and are updated in
> real time.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Juan Manuel
>
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2022-02-22 22:30 ` Footnote tooltips (an attempt) Ypo
2022-02-23 2:26 ` Juan Manuel Macías
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2022-02-23 19:52 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2022-02-23 22:05 ` John Kitchin
2022-02-24 2:04 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2022-02-24 13:01 ` John Kitchin [this message]
2022-02-24 16:25 ` Juan Manuel Macías
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