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(provide 'eldoc-context)

(defun rgr/toggle-context-help ()
  "Turn on or off the context help.
Note that if ON and you hide the help buffer then you need to
manually reshow it. A double toggle will make it reappear"
  (interactive)
  (with-current-buffer (help-buffer)
    (unless (local-variable-p 'context-help)
      (set (make-local-variable 'context-help) t))
    (if (setq context-help (not context-help))
        (progn
             (if (not (get-buffer-window (help-buffer)))
                        (display-buffer (help-buffer)))))
    (message "Context help %s" (if context-help "ON" "OFF"))))

(defun rgr/context-help ()
  "Display function or variable at point in *Help* buffer if visible.
Default behaviour can be turned off by setting the buffer local
context-help to false"
  (interactive)
  (let ((rgr-symbol (symbol-at-point))) ; symbol-at-point http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/thingatpt%2B.el
    (with-current-buffer (help-buffer)
     (unless (local-variable-p 'context-help)
       (set (make-local-variable 'context-help) t))
     (if (and context-help (get-buffer-window (help-buffer))
         rgr-symbol)
       (if (fboundp  rgr-symbol)
           (describe-function rgr-symbol) 
          (if (boundp  rgr-symbol) (describe-variable rgr-symbol)))))))

(defadvice eldoc-print-current-symbol-info
  (around eldoc-show-c-tag activate)
  (cond 
   ((eq major-mode 'emacs-lisp-mode) (rgr/context-help) ad-do-it)
   ((eq major-mode 'lisp-interaction-mode) (rgr/context-help) ad-do-it)
   ((eq major-mode 'apropos-mode) (rgr/context-help) ad-do-it)
   (t ad-do-it)))

(global-set-key (kbd "C-c h") 'rgr/toggle-context-help)