Re: tooltip-use-echo-area disappeared

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Nick Roberts <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 20:29:45 +1200
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> Eli Zaretskii writes:
>  > IMHO, we should rather implement the functionality that somehow isn't
>  > there (although I could probably swear I've seen it in action, at
>  > least in NTEmacs circa 21.1) which allows the user to select one of 3
>  > behaviors:
>  > 
>  >   (1) tooltips popping up in small windows
>  >   (2) tooltip text displayed in the echo area
>  >   (3) tooltips completely disabled
>  > 
>  > (1) should be (and is) the default on graphical displays, (2) should
>  > be the default on character terminals.
> 
> Features like tooltips and mouse-face don't work on a character terminal
> because currently Emacs doesn't know where the mouse is between clicks.

True for Unix tty's (the MS-DOS port uses a character terminal, and
does support tooltips and mouse-face).  But I hope that we will have
this implemented in the future.