> It's been reported twice before, it breaks semantic, which uses > tooltip-use-echo-area in a test to determine whether to enable a > certain feature which would be excessively annoying if displayed in a > resizing echo area.
The first report appear to be from Frank Schmitt after which I added the alias. I heard no more so presumed that fixed the problem. I don't know what a "resizing echo area" is, but is it always a problem? Does it stop Semantic from working? I would guess that the next release of Semantic will be before the next release of Emacs. Has anyone reported this as a bug there? > > > Shouldn't turning tooltip-mode off disable tooltips completely, whether > > > they are displayed in frames or the echo area? > > > > Having tooltip-mode on and tooltip-use-echo-area set to t wasn't > > exactly the same as having tooltip-mode off. > > Even more reason not to remove tooltip-use-echo-area. No, not really. The user experience is pretty much the same. > > With the former, messages were displayed in the echo area in the > > manner of a tooltip i.e they required the mouse to pause over the > > text etc. With the latter, help messages appear instantly like > > mouse-face. > > They shouldn't appear at all. > > > It is not a tooltip and might even predate them, which > > might explain the apparent anomaly. AFAIK, this is how it has > > always been, and no-one has found a problem with it. > > So why the need to remove tooltip-use-echo-area then, and why is gud > so special that it still needs this variable (or a specialized version > of it), while other code apparently doesn't? I explained why earlier, and in the thread(s) about this change. GUD is not special and those involved were agreeable to the changes. I suggest that you read that material. Nick _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
