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Re: tooltip-mode = nil only displays first line of multi-line text-prope


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: tooltip-mode = nil only displays first line of multi-line text-properties or overlays
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 22:42:08 +0200

> Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 21:52:00 -0800
> From: M Jared Finder <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> Richard Stallman wrote:
> > I think this is intentional.  Changing the height of the echo area
> > as you move the mouse would be rather unpleasant.
> > 
> > It could combine the tooltip string lines, and display as much text as
> > will fit in the echo area.  Would that be better?
> 
> If this is intentional, the documentation for tooltip-mode should be 
> changed (as well as the info page on tooltips).

I rather think it's a bug.  We already change the height of the echo
area when a multi-line string is displayed there, so I don't see any
reason to avoid that for help echo.




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