Subject: Re: bug#65554: 30.0.50; help-echo string for truncated tab-bar names is not viewable

From: Visuwesh <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2023 22:00:13 +0530

[ஞாயிறு ஆகஸ்ட் 27, 2023] Juri Linkov wrote:

>> If you set tab-bar-tab-name-function to use tab-bar-tab-name-truncated,
>> the latter function sets the help-echo string of the tab-bar name to the
>> full name
>
> Actually the help-echo string with the full name is not viewable
> even if you remove the :help lines from tab-bar--format-tab.
>
> I propose to move truncating the name from
> tab-bar-tab-name-function to
> tab-bar-tab-name-format-function.

Correct me if I'm wrong, isn't tab-bar-tab-name-function indirectly used
by tab-bar-tab-name-format-function?  If that is the case, shouldn't the
help-echo string survive once :help lines are removed from
tab-bar--format-tab?