Python mode failures with xemacs (Mats Lidell)

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

smitchel writes:

 > I'll have to look up how to use them in Xwindows and get them
 > going.

M-x balloon-help-minor-mode RET

AFAIK the only thing that supports them by default is the toolbar,
although I have an unfinished project called "inspector" that gives
information about a buffer position (character, faces, extents) that
uses them.

You'll probably want to customize `balloon-help-timeout' (currently
1500ms) and some other parameters.  The implementation is in
edit-utils package, balloon-help.el.  Questions to xemacs-beta,
please (although probably answers would come from me, if we're going
to try to make this a feature we should get people who would actually
use it heavily -- not me! -- involved).