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It also has this text property: help-echo "Hidden behind deeper element; move to another line?" ... which is very useful information! However, the only way I can see this (other than describe-char) is to hover over the highlighted text with the mouse. I think it would be handier if this text were displayed somewhere when point was in this area. Some other error-displaying programs, like flycheck (I didn't look at flymake) will do this already; I just think it should be standard across Emacs. Tom In GNU Emacs 25.2.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.8) of 2017-03-02 built on bapiya Repository revision: 6e788ef0e262fafc014c21f4ad52cc5dc9f1715b Windowing system distributor 'Fedora Project', version 11.0.11901000 System Description: Fedora release 25 (Twenty Five) Configured using: 'configure --prefix=/home/tromey/Emacs/install/ --with-modules' Configured features: XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK SOUND GPM DBUS GCONF GSETTINGS NOTIFY LIBSELINUX GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE M17N_FLT LIBOTF XFT ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK3 X11 MODULES Important settings: value of $LANG: en_US.utf8 value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=ibus locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Group Minor modes in effect: gnus-agent-group-mode: t gnus-topic-mode: t gnus-undo-mode: t shell-dirtrack-mode: t diff-auto-refine-mode: t which-function-mode: t global-auto-revert-mode: t erc-services-mode: t erc-list-mode: t erc-menu-mode: t erc-autojoin-mode: t erc-ring-mode: t erc-networks-mode: t erc-pcomplete-mode: t erc-track-mode: t erc-match-mode: t erc-netsplit-mode: t erc-hl-nicks-mode: t erc-button-mode: t erc-fill-mode: t erc-stamp-mode: t erc-irccontrols-mode: t erc-noncommands-mode: t erc-move-to-prompt-mode: t erc-readonly-mode: t savehist-mode: t tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t buffer-read-only: t column-number-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent messages: nnimap read 0k from mail.tromey.com No more unseen articles Expiring articles...done Mark set (New file) Mark set previous-line: Beginning of buffer funcall-interactively: End of buffer Saving file /tmp/q.el... 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