GNU bug report logs - #6595
24.0.50; tooltip doc

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Package: emacs;

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

Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 18:20:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 24.0.50

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>

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From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>, 6595 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6595: 24.0.50; tooltip doc
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:04:41 +0800

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> 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.
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