Subject: Re: bug#6595: 24.0.50; tooltip doc

From: Chong Yidong <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:04:41 +0800

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]> writes:

> I think `tooltip-use-echo-area' should be obsoleted -- as you point
> out, it seems nonsensical.
>
> Does anybody know why `tooltip-use-echo-area' exists?  Hysterical
> raisins?

If I'm not wrong, Emacs used to have a more limited facility for showing
echo area tips without going through tooltip.el.  Nowadays both
graphical and echo area tooltips use tooltip.el.  I've marked
`tooltip-use-echo-area' as obsolete.