Subject: Re: bug#23341: x-show-tip does not respect the value of tooltip-hide-delay, and the default tooltip timeout isn't configurable

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 01 May 2022 11:53:57 +0200

Po Lu <[email-masked]> writes:

> In general, using `x-show-tip' directly comes with many pitfalls, some
> of which are not easy to come by, so authors of third-party Lisp should
> not call that function directly without a detailed understanding of the
> different layers of tooltip machinery.  That understanding includes
> providing an appropriate `timeout' parameter.

As I said in the bug thread, I agree with that, but nevertheless,
x-show-tip is still used directly -- even in-tree -- so adding a
(non-user option) variable to allow tweaking is appropriate.

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