Re: tooltip-use-echo-area disappeared

[Nick Roberts]

 >     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?

That is one way, but not the only one.  I suggest that we leave it as obsolete
- that doesn't mean it has to go, just that we don't have to feel guilty if we
do remove it.

Nick