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How to remap Company's select next and select previous keys?

I don't like the default M-n and M-p keys for company-select-next and company-select-previous so I was wondering if it's possible to remap those to C-n and C-p without affecting the mappings when company's tooltip is not active.
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How can I find out exactly what my modeline is telling me?

I'd like to know exactly what my modeline is telling me and how it's derived. Right now, if I'm working with a graphical terminal I can hover over each modeline entry in turn, and if I'm lucky, a tooltip will pop up; obviously, this won't work in a…
Saint Aardvark the Carpeted
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How to prevent Emacs from moving my mouse pointer out of the way?

I'm using Spacemacs on MS Windows (msys2 build) and when a tooltip pops up Emacs seems to move my mouse pointer out of the way. How can I prevent this automatic movement?
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Disable all GUI popups and tooltips

Can I disable this kind of a popup? I couldn't find anything besides (setq x-gtk-use-system-tooltips nil), but it didin't help me unfortunately.
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Concatenate multiple 'help-echo strings

I have multiple overlays with 'help-echo strings covering the same region. Can I make Emacs show all these strings in the mouseover tooltip? By default it only shows the one coming from the highest priority overlay. EDIT: The context is FlyCheck: a…
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How to get immediate visual feedback of keys I type?

I would like to get some immediate strong visual feedback for the commands I enter in emacs. For example, I would be happy if any key sequence (beginning with a modifier key) that I type appeared in large red letters in the centre of the current…
Communicative Algebra
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how to display target of an org-mode link in the echo area or as tooltip?

In org mode when I hover over a link, I get a tooltip that shows the target of the link. But I'd like to see the target when I just move point onto a link, either as a tooltip or in the echo area. For example, with: * a headline and a…
Dan Drake
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How to make tooltip background transparent?

I want to make the tooltip background somewhat transparent, say, change it alpha value to 0.5. I find these code in tooltip.el.gz (defface tooltip '((((class color)) :background "lightyellow" :foreground "black" :inherit…
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How can I enlarge the font of tooltips?

I want to enlarge the text in tooltips displayed via https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/PosTip . What can I do?
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When I do `magit-process-buffer` (`$`) it shows an ellipsis (`…`). What is behind the `ellipsis`?

I wanted to investigate the difference between magit-branch-and-checkout (b c) and magit-branch-spinoff (b s), so I invoked the Magit output buffer with $. I see the following output: 0 git … checkout -b energy-efficiency main Switched to a new…
Alessandro Bertulli
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Display multiple tooltips at once

Is there any way to display multiple tooltips, or something similar to them? Overlays wont work because i need to display them using xy coordinates.
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Show Link Tooltip mouse over with keystroke

When I use mouse-over on an Link (thanks to Tobias) it shows an Image and text. When I used display-local-help the image disappeared (perhaps due to lack of space in the message area). I want to start the mouse-over with any key. Therefore I need a…
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Org-ref mouseover timer

Org-ref provides excellent bibliographic tools for authoring within org documents. However, one issue I've had is the mouseover timer for citation links appears to be set to zero seconds. That is, whenever the mouse pointer passes over a citation…
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Graphical tooltips in Emacs not working as expected

I am trying to make graphical tooltips appear over some words in Emacs. Here is the code I have developed: (defun image-tooltip (window object position) (save-excursion (goto-char position) (let* ((img-file (format "%s.png" (thing-at-point…
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Spacemacs not using the theme for tooltips after resizing the window

I'm using Spacemacs with Solarized dark theme on Arch linux using i3wm, and I'm having some issues with tooltips. If I open Emacs so it only covers part of the screen, the tooltips shows up with the correct font, colors and size. If I fullscreen…
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