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25.0.92; Local face-remapping-alist doesn't affect tooltips

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 23246 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23246: 25.0.92; Local face-remapping-alist doesn't affect tooltips
Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2016 12:35:00 +0300

> From: Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am <at> gmail.com>
> Cc: 23246 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2016 17:06:01 -0300
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Why did you expect them to be blue?  Tooltips are special frames that
> > don't display any buffer, whereas face-remap-add-relative is
> > documented as affecting only the buffer that was current at the time
> > it was called.
> 
> Sorry, to me it wasn't obvious that tooltips are different frames.

I've added to the ELisp manual some documentation about that, which
makes it clear these are frames.

> I want to change the way tooltips are displayed in a major-mode I'm
> writing. I don't want to change this face globally for the user, only
> change it in the buffers where this major-mode is active.
> 
> I understand that might not be possible, in which case feel free to
> close.

I think you can achieve that by putting your own hook function on the
tooltip-functions list.

Let me know if there's anything else to do about this bug report.

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