Is there a way to display a tooltip (like a popdown menu, but just with text), where the cursor is, using VimScript?
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Is there a way to display a tooltip (like a popdown menu, but just with text), where the cursor is, using VimScript?
If you mean a tooltip where the mouse cursor is, then you can do this by turning the
balloonevaloption on and setting thebexproption to point to a function that returns your required tooltip. This is only available if you’re using a vim compiled with+balloon_eval(see:version). Have a look at my (rather basic) tag balloons script for an example.If you mean a tooltip where the normal vim cursor is, I don’t think there’s a very clean way to do this. You could create a custom menu with the text that you want (using amenu) and map the command to
:nop<CR>and use:popupto display it:However, this will only work in the Win32 and GTK GUIs.
I don’t know of a way to use the insert mode popup menu (the one used for
Ctrl-Pand omnicompletion etc) to just display some text. You could abuse the completion method to give your own text as the completion alternative and setmenuoneincompleteoptto allow a single line to be shown, but it would probably overwrite the current text with the contents of the popup menu. It would probably also break omnicompletion!