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List:       vim-dev
Subject:    Re: Yet another feature request mail...
From:       "Dan Sharp" <dwsharp () hotmail ! com>
Date:       2002-12-08 2:50:12
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>From: srinath@fastmail.fm
>
>3. GUI feature requests ofcourse are shot down on sight, but for what
>    its worth, here's one: balloons in gvim. This will be very useful
>    again in places like word completion and also in the future when
>    vim might integrate with developement IDEs. In those cases, we
>    might have something like hovering over a variable in vim makes it
>    communicate with the IDE server, get some information about it and
>    display it in a balloon...

Not all GUI feature requests are shot down.  Take a look at
:he balloon-eval
for an implementation of your request :)  Only limited platform support 
right now, but it was implemented with intentions of being applied to other 
platforms as well.

Dan Sharp

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