Re: Tooltipping enhancement request

[Jan D.]

> About VisualBasic like completion selection, I think it is better
> to extend the behavior of popup-menu. The popup menu of emacs 
> configured
> with --with-gtk can do
> 1) select a menu item with cursor keys, and
> 2) pass other keys to the behind buffer and close the popup menu 
> itself.
>
> The biggest problem is that there is no elisp function to pop down the
> popup menu. (Correct me if I write wroing.) So you cannot use the popup
> menu with timers.

No, you are not wrong.  Can you elaborate more exactly what you want to
do, and why a timer is needed?  There may be some other means to do what
you want.

        Jan D.