From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/41832 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Colin Marquardt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Balloon help type thing for footnotes Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 09:24:12 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035177166 8170 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:12:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:12:46 +0000 (UTC) Keywords: xemacs Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 20968 invoked from network); 11 Jan 2002 08:27:56 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 11 Jan 2002 08:27:56 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16Owzn-0003AX-00; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 02:25:03 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 11 Jan 2002 02:24:54 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id CAA25965 for ; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 02:24:41 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 20938 invoked by alias); 11 Jan 2002 08:24:43 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 20933 invoked from network); 11 Jan 2002 08:24:42 -0000 Original-Received: from mailrelay2.alcatel.de (194.113.59.71) by gnus.org with SMTP; 11 Jan 2002 08:24:42 -0000 Original-Received: from slsd38.stgl.sel.alcatel.de (sls8zy.stgl.sel.alcatel.de [149.204.240.184]) by mailrelay2.alcatel.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA29714 for ; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 09:24:12 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from slse6u.stgl.sel.alcatel.de (slse6u [149.204.240.35]) by slsd38.stgl.sel.alcatel.de (8.10.2+Sun/8.8.8-tak-vsehServer-000110) with ESMTP id g0B8ODb15053 for ; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 09:24:13 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: (from cmarqu@localhost) by slse6u.stgl.sel.alcatel.de (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) id JAA24737; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 09:24:12 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: slse6u.stgl.sel.alcatel.de: cmarqu set sender to c.marquardt@alcatel.de using -f Original-To: Gnus List X-Disclaimer: Opinions expressed are not those of Alcatel. In-Reply-To: (Steve Youngs's message of "Fri, 11 Jan 2002 12:35:21 +1000") Original-Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090005 (Oort Gnus v0.05) Emacs/21.1 (sparc-sun-solaris2.6) X-Alcanet-MTA-scanned-and-authorized: yes Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:41832 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:41832 Steve Youngs writes: > I just finished reading a long message (100+ lines) that had quite a > few footnotes throughout. > > So I got to thinking: WIBNI I could just move my rat over the "[1]" > in the article body and have a balloon-help type dialog display the > contents of the footnote. M-x footnote-balloons :) http://list-archive.xemacs.org/xemacs-beta/199809/msg00179.html The code: http://groups.google.de/groups?hl=de&selm=deathsquad.m3sni94okh.fsf%40socha.net Seems to work under XEmacs only, so a port to GNU Emacs would be nice. HTH, Colin