On 29 May 2008, at 12:56, Allan Odgaard wrote:
On 29 May 2008, at 09:46, Hans-Joerg Bibiko wrote:
[ copy contents of tool tip ] Of course, to find a proper key/mouse event could be a bit tricky. All key events are bound to text document except for ESC. Thus my question is: Does anyone have an idea?
I think finding a gesture to use, while the tool tip is showing, is difficult because tool tips are very elusive and do not respond to regular events (and if they did, they would often interfere). Perhaps an easier approach is to just have alternative commands.
We already have ⌃⇧P → Show Scope (as tool tip) and ⌃⇧⌘P → Copy Scope (to clipboard).
One could do similar for the statistics command.
Well, this would work for specific commands, but I asked for a general approach. Sometimes it would be nice to have the message of any command shown as tool tip in the clipboard etc.
OK. I know to find an event for this is very difficult.
But how about an option in TM's preference: "Write the content of any tool tip to /tmp/TM_tooltip.txt"
Then one could have a command à la "Get/Insert/Copy the content of the last tooltip".
This also could be done for the HTML output. There are some XXXmate commands which have a button "Copy content". By using such an option one inherits this automatically.
But firstly, this is a question how often that functionality will be used by other users.
Thanks,
--Hans