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From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
To: Alex Branham <alex.branham@gmail.com>, 28724@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#28724: 25.3; height of echo area when displaying tooltip
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2017 10:09:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <59D88B9E.2020704@gmx.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mv54kvb4.fsf@gmail.com>

 > If I have disabled tooltip-mode, is there a way to tell Emacs that it
 > should expand the height of the echo area (where tooltips are
 > displayed) if the tooltip is longer than the screen is wide? Currently
 > the words just run off and I can't see them.

This should have been fixed for Emacs 26.  Please try the release
version.

 > Additionally, I believe the info manual and docstring for
 > `x-gtk-use-system-tooltips' may need updating. In section 21.18
 > Tooltips, it says "If Emacs is built with GTK+ support..." and goes on
 > to state that users can change `x-gtk-use-system-tooltips' to
 > nil.

This means that Emacs will from now on try to display native (non-GTK)
tooltips instead.

 > However, I was under the impression that the recommended way to
 > do this was to call (tooltips-mode -1).

The recommended way to turn off tooltips is

(tooltip-mode -1)

without the "s", indeed.

martin





  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-07  8:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-06 18:03 bug#28724: 25.3; height of echo area when displaying tooltip Alex Branham
2017-10-07  8:09 ` martin rudalics [this message]
2017-10-07  8:40   ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-07  9:45     ` martin rudalics
2017-10-07 12:08       ` Eli Zaretskii

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