Balloon help type thing for footnotes

Balloon help type thing for footnotes

[Steve Youngs]

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.


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Re: Balloon help type thing for footnotes

[Colin Marquardt]

Steve Youngs <youngs@xemacs.org> 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

Re: Balloon help type thing for footnotes

[Martin Thornquist]

[ Colin Marquardt ]

> 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.

And even nicer would be to have a keyboard shortcut (something similar
to `b'?); I like to stay away from the rodent as much as possible.


Martin
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Re: Balloon help type thing for footnotes

[Steve Youngs]

|--==> "CM" == Colin Marquardt <c.marquardt@alcatel.de> writes:

  CM> Steve Youngs <youngs@xemacs.org> writes:
  >>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.

  CM> M-x footnote-balloons :)

Dang!  And I thought I was having an original idea.  Oh well.

  CM> The code:
  CM>   http://groups.google.de/groups?hl=de&selm=deathsquad.m3sni94okh.fsf%40socha.net

Thanks, works great!


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Re: Balloon help type thing for footnotes

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Colin Marquardt <c.marquardt@alcatel.de> writes:

> 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.

If it could be ported to both Emacsen (and paperwork done, etc), then
Gnus could bind the command to some key to make navigation
convenient. 

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