Re: Why does show_help_echo call substitute_command_keys?

[Clément Pit-Claudel]

On 2017-07-21 10:48, Yuri Khan wrote:
> Because the help-echo property is the Emacs API to tooltips, and
> tooltips are expected to be able to display keyboard equivalents to
> clicking the thing that is pointed?

Ok. So we don't expect callers to explicitly use substitute-command-keys on 
their help-echo properties?

> There should probably be a function that knows when and how to quote
> the characters that cause such substitution with \=.

Yes, it would be nice.  Maybe there already is one and I missed it.