Subject: Re: bug#35392: 26.2; (elisp) `Special Properties' cites missing example

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2019 00:52:29 +0200

Drew Adams <[email-masked]> writes:

> The description of `show-help-function' says that Tooltip mode provides
> an example.  Where is a user supposed to find this example?  Is she
> supposed to look at the code defining `tooltip-mode'?
>
> Also, this text is a bit misleading because it says:
>
>  Tooltip mode (*note (emacs)Tooltips::) provides an example.
>
> That could easily be misread as saying that node `Tooltips' of the Emacs
> manual provides the example, instead of (what it does say) that Tooltip
> mode provides the example (but how/where?).

I've now clarified that the example is in the code of tooltip-mode.

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