Subject: Re: bug#30399: 27.0.50; tooltips are broken

From: martin rudalics <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2018 10:47:46 +0100

>> This is due to a rather silly omission which should have already
 >> defeated a feature in Emacs 26 when calling 'x-show-tip' (you've
 >> been warned - Lisp code should call 'tooltip-show').
 >
 > That warning sounds very bad to me.  It's vague, however,
 > so forgive me if I'm overreacting.

It's up to you to ignore warnings.

 > Here's a typical call:
 >
 > (x-show-tip (propertize
 >                cmd-desc
 >                'face
 >                `(:foreground "red"
 >                  :height ,showkey-tooltip-height))
 >              nil
 >              nil
 >              showkey-tooltip-timeout)

Make sure to use (selected-frame) as second argument for Emacs < 27.
nil is broken but you might not notice it.

martin