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https://github.com/company-mode/company-quickhelp
Documentation popup for Company
https://github.com/company-mode/company-quickhelp
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Documentation popup for Company
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/company-mode/company-quickhelp
- Owner: company-mode
- License: gpl-3.0
- Created: 2015-01-29T14:51:49.000Z (almost 10 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2023-10-26T17:14:41.000Z (about 1 year ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-05-09T21:02:25.642Z (7 months ago)
- Language: Emacs Lisp
- Homepage:
- Size: 153 KB
- Stars: 372
- Watchers: 12
- Forks: 33
- Open Issues: 5
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# Company quickhelp
## What is?
One of the things I missed the most when moving from
[auto-complete](https://github.com/auto-complete/auto-complete) to
[company](https://github.com/company-mode) was the documentation
popups that would appear when idling on a completion candidate. This
package remedies that situation.
[auto-complete](https://github.com/auto-complete/auto-complete) uses
[popup-el](https://github.com/auto-complete/popup-el) to do its thing
and this results in quite a few glitches. This package uses the much
better [pos-tip](http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/PosTip) to display the
popups. I recommend installing `pos-tip` using [MELPA](www.melpa.org)
which fetches the version of `pos-tip` which is located
[here](https://github.com/pitkali/pos-tip/blob/master/pos-tip.el).
This version contains a few bugfixes not included in the original on
[EmacsWiki](http://www.emacswiki.org).
### What isn't
Since this library relies on `pos-tip`, and I prefer libraries that do
one thing well, `company-quickhelp` will never be extended with
optional terminal support.
## Installation
I highly recommend installing `company-quickhelp` through `package.el`.
It's available on [MELPA](http://melpa.org/):
M-x package-install company-quickhelp
## Usage
To activate `company-quickhelp` add the following to your `init.el`:
```elisp
(company-quickhelp-mode)
```
You can adjust the time it takes for the documentation to pop up by
changing `company-quickhelp-delay`.
If you don't want the help popup to appear automatically, but prefer
it to the popup help buffer provided by
[company](https://github.com/company-mode), you can set
`company-quickhelp-delay` to `nil` and manually trigger the popup with
`M-h`.
## Customizing
If you hit `M-x customize-group company-quickhelp ` you'll
find a few variables you can diddle.
For instance, you can change the help popup text background and foreground colors.
You might also want to put this in your `init.el`:
```el
(eval-after-load 'company
'(define-key company-active-map (kbd "C-c h") #'company-quickhelp-manual-begin))
```
This gives you a key to manually trigger the help popup, but only when
company is doing its thing.
## Developer corner
By default, `company-quickhelp` displays the contents of the buffer returned by a `doc-buffer` backend call. To override this default, backends should respond to the `quickhelp-string` command with a string to display instead of the contents of `doc-buffer`.
## Is it any good?
Yes!
