> When tooltip-mode is disabled or more general when show-help-funtion > is nil the help messages are shown in the echo area. During display > message-truncate-display is bound to t. I suspect this was done to > avoid a "jumping echo area". This is nice but i would accept this > tradeoff to see the whole help message.
> This patch adds a variable show-help-echo-truncate that can be used to > control this behavior. It is bound to t to be compatible with the > current code. I'd rather find a way to get the best of both worlds without a config variable. E.g. using scrolling in the single-line minibuffer, or by only truncating for the first few seconds and then expanding the echo area if you stay on the same help-echo spot long enough. Stefan _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel