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bug#6595: 24.0.50; tooltip doc
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Drew Adams |
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bug#6595: 24.0.50; tooltip doc |
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Fri, 9 Jul 2010 10:52:51 -0700 |
The tooltip doc is not so great.
Node Tooltips of the Emacs manual says nothing about tooltip mode being
enabled by default. And it says nothing about option
`tooltip-use-echo-area'.
More generally, it nowhere explains clearly what the recommended way of
moving help to the echo area is (i.e. not using tooltips). There is an
option, `tooltip-use-echo-area', whose doc tells you that if you want
help to appear in the echo area then you should customize this to
non-nil and enable tooltip mode.
But why? Why is there this separate option, in addition to the option
`tooltip-mode', whose customization to nil has the same effect of moving
help to the echo area?
This is not clear to me. Either there is a design flaw - perhaps
`tooltip-use-echo-area' should be removed, or more likely something is
simply missing from the doc. Please explain - make this topic clear to
users.
In GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
of 2010-06-28 on 3249CTO
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-gcc (4.4) --no-opt --cflags -Ic:/xpm/include'
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