This library implements rendering of popup box with "Navi, the fairy" from The Legend of Zelda, Ocarina of Time. You can make her say various things by calling navi-say function. To hide the pop-up, simply invoke any command (move forward/backward, type, C-g etc., any event is recognized).
By default Navi show tip using pos-tip. you may prefer using popup.
(setq navi-tip-show-function #'navi-popup-tip-show)
As inspiration, two functions are provided: navi-describe-function and navi-describe-variable. Bind any of these functions to a key, then while point is over a function/variable, call it. A popup with helpfull Navi will appear, telling you about the function/variable (using describe-function and describe-variable respectively).
This package depends on pos-tip or popup.
Code is pretty much word-for-word stolen from (and is forked from): https://github.com/Fuco1/clippy.el Original code is roughly based on: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/PosTip#toc3
The original inspiration to write the clippy package came from http://www.geekzone.co.nz/foobar/5656, a crazy discussion on #emacs and Fuco1's terrible headache stopping him from doing anything more productive.
Mine was because I grew up with the game and writing this similarly made it easier for me to procrastinate any real work.