GNU bug report logs - #35392
26.2; (elisp) `Special Properties' cites missing example

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2019 12:59:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed

Found in version 26.2

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 35392 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#35392: 26.2; (elisp) `Special Properties' cites missing example
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2019 00:52:29 +0200

Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> 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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