>>>>> "Andy" == Andy Piper <andyp(a)parallax.co.uk&gt; writes: Andy> At 13:38 24/10/98 +0200, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: >> Not if you want to have the ability to attach glyphs and >> extents to tooltip strings. Andy> Why would I want to do this :) Normal interface for attaching actions to text is via extents (although I don't know if that works in strings). If that works for these strings, you could presumably bind functions to call up Info or the full Emacs docstrings to the balloon help. If that doesn't work, maybe it should be made to work ;-)