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Re: Tooltip and incremental drop-down menus of automatic completion.


From: Basil L. Contovounesios
Subject: Re: Tooltip and incremental drop-down menus of automatic completion.
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2021 13:06:26 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> writes:

> On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 4:22 PM Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> wrote:
>>
>> * Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> [2021-06-14 10:04]:
>> > When I typeset LaTeX source file in Emacs with auctex enabled, I
>> > want to know if the features like tooltip and incremental drop-down
>> > menus of automatic completion are available.
>>
>> I don't know about the tooltip, that usually shortly explains the icon
>> in the toolbar.
>
> See screenshot named as tooltip.png, which is shown in TeXstudio.

AFAIK the only tooltip support in AUCTeX is for revealing folded buffer
content; see the end of (info "(auctex) Folding") [0].

One way to find the documentation of a package at point is with the
commands TeX-documentation-texdoc or TeX-doc;
see (info "(auctex) Documentation") [1].  I'm not aware of any commands
for briefly summarising that information, though.  I'm sure the AUCTeX
experts here will know better.

[0]: https://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/manual/auctex/Folding.html
[1]: https://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/manual/auctex/Documentation.html

> I tried `ivy' in Emacs, but it shows some shortcomings, as described below:
>
> 1. The incremental drop down menu only will be triggered when the
> input character number greater than 3.

That must be a result of some setting/package unrelated to Ivy.
With or without Ivy, AUCTeX can complete even the start of a macro '\'.

> 2. Some commands, say, `\href', will not be automatically completed at all.

This is not an issue with Ivy; see my reply on the Ivy issue tracker:
https://github.com/abo-abo/swiper/issues/2887#issuecomment-860617241

-- 
Basil



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