GNU bug report logs - #29627
25.3; x-show-tip does not display text when x-gtk-use-tooltips is nil and left/right-margin-width is set

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Terje Larsen <terlar <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2017 17:28:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 25.3

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
Cc: 29627 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, terlar <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#29627: 25.3; x-show-tip does not display text when x-gtk-use-tooltips is nil and left/right-margin-width is set
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2017 16:49:30 +0200

> Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2017 15:28:55 +0100
> From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
> CC: 29627 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, terlar <at> gmail.com
> 
> -       Currently only used for menu bar windows of frames.  */
> +       Currently only used for menu bar windows, for tool bar windows,
> +       and for tooltips.  */

This is part of my perennial quest to make the comments match the
code...

>  > Having said all that, if you see problem(s) caused by my change,
>  > please describe them; I'm not married to the fix I pushed.
> 
> It's OK.

Great, thanks.

> My concern was that turning tooltip windows into pseudo-windows
> would have meant a quite substantial change for the release branch.

Indeed.  Just like the opposite change bothered me.
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