On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 6:35 AM Eli Zaretskii <
eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> From: Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com>
> Cc: 23246@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2016 17:06:01 -0300
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > Why did you expect them to be blue? Tooltips are special frames that
> > don't display any buffer, whereas face-remap-add-relative is
> > documented as affecting only the buffer that was current at the time
> > it was called.
>
> Sorry, to me it wasn't obvious that tooltips are different frames.
I've added to the ELisp manual some documentation about that, which
makes it clear these are frames.
> I want to change the way tooltips are displayed in a major-mode I'm
> writing. I don't want to change this face globally for the user, only
> change it in the buffers where this major-mode is active.
>
> I understand that might not be possible, in which case feel free to
> close.
I think you can achieve that by putting your own hook function on the
tooltip-functions list.
Let me know if there's anything else to do about this bug report.
No, I think we can close this. Thanks for the help.
And thanks to martin too. `x-show-tip' just might work.