Subject: bug#18343: 24.4.50; REGRESSION: `help-echo' property is not added, so no tooltip or echo

From: Drew Adams <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 10:06:40 -0700 (PDT)

ez> Disable font-lock-mode, and help-echo works again as expected.
ez> It sounds like font-lock overwrites the help-echo property.

Yes.  It apparently just removes the property.

wj> Just turn off font-lock-mode ;-)
wj> Seriously, educated guess + vc-annotate gives:
wj>
wj> Author: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
wj> Date:   Tue Apr 22 13:45:43 2014 -0400
    ...
wj> + (font-lock-extra-managed-props help-echo)

I hope no one is suggesting that this is a new feature, instead
of a regression. ;-)