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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: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 06:30:52 +0200

> Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 05:54:06 +0900
> From: "Miles Bader" <address@hidden>
> Cc: "M Jared Finder" <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> 
> 2006/3/21, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>:
> > 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.
> 
> It could be _quite_ annoying; tooltips tend to pop up more often, and
> more "randomly" than normal echo-area messages.

But we are talking about a very rare situation: (a) the user
deliberately asked for the help echo to be displayed in the echo area,
and (b) the help echo text is multi-line.  If they are _quite_
annoyed, they can go back to the normal tooltips.




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