Ie, suppose I press M-x org-agenda and ivy says there's 131 matches, of which I recognize maybe 10. It'd be useful to say, after a .2 second delay, display a tooltip for the function at point. Is there a way to do that?
I think you are looking for something like ivy-rich. You can configure what should be displayed in the minibuffer, including the help string of the functions. You can configure the ivy-rich-display-transformers-alist. For description of variables or functions you can configure columns:
(:columns ((counsel-M-x-transformer (:width 40)) (ivy-rich-counsel-function-docstring (:face font-lock-doc-face)))) counsel-describe-function (:columns ((counsel-describe-function-transformer (:width 40)) (ivy-rich-counsel-function-docstring (:face font-lock-doc-face)))) counsel-describe-variable
WHich is as far as I remember already configured by default.
Hope this helps.
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Oh man, I don't know how I lived without this. You, and the ivy rich maintainers are my heroes. Thanks! – cryptograthor Jun 29 '20 at 9:28
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1Just in case you are using tramp, ivy-rich gets terribly slow if you have several remote files open. I normally just deactivate ivy-rich if using tramp excessively. – AltruisticDelay Jun 29 '20 at 11:25
org-agendacommand shows the agenda commands buffer that asks you to press one of the 16 available keys. There are explanations for all. Ivy is not involved. What functions do you mean? – Heikki Jun 29 '20 at 7:24