Re: Can't use tooltip of dictionary package in Emacs 23

[pluskid]

Hi Tassilo!
   You mentioned you looked on how dictionary.el implemented it.
Can you explain how it implement? Then maybe we can look on
Emacs's source code or consult the developers of Emacs to solve
this problem. :)

Tassilo Horn wrote:
> "Chiyuan Zhang" <pluskid.zju@gmail.com> writes:
>
> Hi Chiyuan,
>
> > [dictionary-tooltips don't work with emacs >= 22.]
>
> Two month ago I wrote a german-english translation app (in Ruby, RDictCc
> [1]) and tried to integrate it into GNU Emacs, so that I easily can
> translate the word at point or replace it with its translation.
>
> Then I thought those tooltips could be nice and had a look on how
> dictionary.el implements it. But it didn't work at all. I'm not sure if
> it's a bug in emacs 22, or if it was rather an intended change.
>
> So to make it short: Yes, dictionary.el's tooltips don't work with
> emacsen >= 22.
>
> Bye,
> Tassilo
>
> Footnotes:
> [1] http://www.uni-koblenz.de/%7Eheimdall/apps.php
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