Re: x-show-tip color choices

[Nick Roberts]

 > I'm not quite sure if this qualifies as a bug, however I find it
 > irritating:
 > 
 > I have this in my .emacs:
 > (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(background-color . "black"))
 > (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(foreground-color . "wheat"))
 > 
 > So when I call
 > (x-show-tip "hello")

Why do you call x-show-tip?

 > I get a tooltip with wheat-colored text and a yellow background.

I think x-show-tip is just meant as an internal function for tooltip-show.  Why
not use that, or even tooltip-mode and the help-echo text proerty, instead?

 > I don't think it should override only one of the background and
 > foreground colors; either both or none.

It probably overrides the background so that it doesn't appear as part of the
parent frame (unless that happens to be lightyellow) when debugging tooltip
functionality.  Unless you have a real purpose for using x-show-tip directly,
I don't think this is worth changing.

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Nick                                           http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob