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27.0.50; tooltips are broken

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From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
Cc: 30399-close <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#30399: 27.0.50; tooltips are broken
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2018 10:47:19 +0100

> I know, and the code that revealed this bug does use tooltip-show; but
> the above difference between them puzzled me, since tooltip-show is a
> wrapper around x-show-tip.

Good catch - that bug was with us for quite some time.

> I generally use the default value of x-gtk-use-system-tooltips, but for
> appointments I use a custom tooltip, which AFAICT requires setting
> x-gtk-use-system-tooltips to nil.  Is there some way to achieve this
> without let-binding (or using setq twice within the function defining
> the appointment tooltip)?

Let-binding is certainly more convenient in this regard.  But a
package should (IMO) make it customizable whether the user value of
'x-gtk-use-system-tooltips' should be applied for appointments too.

> Thanks for the quick fix.

Thanks for the very helpful report.

Bug closed, martin

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