Re: tooltip-use-echo-area disappeared

[Richard Stallman]

    I'm not sure that you've followed the whole thread.

I can never follow the whole of such a thread.  I don't have time!

                                                         The feature of being 
able
    to display help messages and GUD variable values in the echo area has *not*
    been removed.  On the other hand, the variable tooltip-use-echo-area has 
been
    made obsolete because it involves an ugly hack that intertwines the code in
    tooltip.el and gud.el.

I must be confused.  If that feature exists, doesn't tooltip-use-echo-area
control whether to enable it?