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24.0.50; tooltip-mode disabled interferes with x-popup-menu prompts

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 7476 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, drew.adams <at> oracle.com, dmoncayo <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#7476: 24.0.50; tooltip-mode disabled interferes with x-popup-menu prompts
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2023 16:42:53 +0300

> Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2023 10:15:35 -0300
> Cc: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com>, drew.adams <at> oracle.com
> From: Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda <at> gmail.com>
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
>  >> Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 11:29:44 +0100
>  >> From: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com>
>  >> Cc: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>, 7476 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>  >>
>  >> On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 10:29, Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>  >> >
>  >> > I cannot reproduce it on my box (I see the prompt with and without
>  >> > tooltip-mode enabled).
>  >> >
>  >> > In GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.22.0)
>  >> >  of 2010-11-26 on dani-P5PL2
>  >> > Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 
> 11.0.10900000
>  >> >
>  >>
>  >> On further tests I've found a way to reproduce this problem on my
>  >> system: Just before step #5, give focus to another GNOME application,
>  >> and then select Emacs again,
>  >
>  > Thanks.  So I guess this is not specific to MS-Windows.
> 
> I tried to reproduce it on MS-Windows but after the fix for Bug#3192, it
> doesn't reproduce for me anymore.  The fix is in:
> 
> commit f22346fe5abdbdac2ba5f690c11fda4d4f5d22d6
> Author: Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda <at> gmail.com>
> Date:   Mon Sep 16 22:17:51 2019 +0200
> 
>      With tooltip-mode disabled, don't unconditionally clear the echo area
> 
>      * lisp/tooltip.el (tooltip-show-help-non-mode): Only clear the
>      echo area when the current message displayed is a tooltip message
>      (Bug#3192).
> 
> 
> If I revert that change, then it's easily reproducible.
> 
> I cannot reproduce it on GNU/Linux neither (even following the
> extra step given by Dani Moncayo)

Then I guess we can finally close this bug.

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