Re: Capture the mouse-highlight help-text in a file?

[Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>]

brian powell <briangpowellms@gmail.com> wrote:

> * Thanks, Nick--I have been pursuing that idea--maybe just extract the regexp, sed/grep etc.
> 
> ** But I was just thinking maybe there is a simple way to capture the pop up "LINK:
> file:foo.txt balloon" as you put it--into a file or fifo.
> 
> *** Then all sorts of things could be done with it--I'm thinking maybe OrgMode could be used with
> the lights out/if your blind/screen blinks out---well, OrgMode could be partially used...one could
> pipe it to a text-to-speech program for example---and/or logging where the mouse has been in an
> OrgMode document.
> 

I see - afaik, the balloon appears only on the screen and is not logged anywhere.
I certainly don't know of any way to capture it as it happens. It seems to happen
deep in emacs's nether regions (in C code afaict), but I didn't chase it down
too far.

Nick

> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> wrote:
> 
>     brian powell <briangpowellms@gmail.com> wrote:
>    
>     > * I know that this will toggle the mouse-highlight "messages that pop-up" when you move a
>     mouse over
>     > a "LINK: " in OrgMode:
>     >
>     > (setq mouse-highlight (not mouse-highlight))
>     >
>     > ** Now, is there a simple way to send the "messages that pop-up" to a file?
>     >
>    
>     They are already in a file: the org file that contains the link.
>     A link like this  [[file:foo.txt][foo]] pops up a LINK: file:foo.txt
>     balloon, so a suitable grep/sed combination suffices.
>    
>     But I suspect that this is not a satisfactory answer: what exactly are
>     you trying to do?
>    
>     Nick
>    
>     > *** Maybe to a FIFO?
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