bug#2423: 23.0.90; Incomplete text in tooltip for buffer's encoding

bug#2423: 23.0.90; Incomplete text in tooltip for buffer's encoding

[Eli Zaretskii]

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Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

In "emacs -Q", move the mouse pointer to the mnemonic of
buffer-file-coding-system, and wait for the tooltip to pop up.  The
tooltip text should be:

  Buffer coding systme (multi-byte): CODING
  mouse-1: describe coding system

But on MS-Windows, if CODING is iso-latin-N-dos (for any N that is a
single digit), the second line is not shown; instead, there's an empty
line.  Changing the buffer's encoding to something different, like
utf-8 or cyrillic-iso-8bit-dos, or even iso-latin-10-dos or
iso-latin-1-unix, makes the second line reappear.  Changing back to
iso-latin-[1-9]-dos makes the text of second line disappear again.

It looks like the problem is somehow related to the length of the
first line's text.

This is not a new problem, I've seen it for as long as I can remember.
I just forgot to report it until now, sorry.

The problem does not exist in Emacs 22.3, but the tooltip text in
Emacs 22.3 is formatted differently and displays as a single line:

  CODING buffer; mouse-1: describe coding system

(I say "MS-Windows" above only because I cannot test this in a GUI
session on a Unix or GNU system where I'm typing this, so I don't know
whether the same problem happens on other platforms.)

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In GNU Emacs 23.0.90.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2009-02-21 on HOME-C4E4A596F7
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4)'

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: ENU
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: cp1255
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> C-x 
<return> f u t <tab> 8 <return> <help-echo> C-x <return> 
f l a t <tab> 1 <return> <help-echo> M-x e <backspace> 
r e p o <tab> r <tab> <return>

Recent messages:
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bug#2423: 23.0.90; Incomplete text in tooltip for buffer's encoding

[martin rudalics]

 > In "emacs -Q", move the mouse pointer to the mnemonic of
 > buffer-file-coding-system, and wait for the tooltip to pop up.  The
 > tooltip text should be:
 >
 >   Buffer coding systme (multi-byte): CODING
 >   mouse-1: describe coding system
 >
 > But on MS-Windows, if CODING is iso-latin-N-dos (for any N that is a
 > single digit), the second line is not shown; instead, there's an empty
 > line.

On Windows XP I never get a decent last line for ANY multiline tooltip
when the default variable-pitch font is used (sometimes a few dots are
displayed instead of the last line).  With Courier New all tooltips are
shown as created.

martin

bug#2423: 23.0.90; Incomplete text in tooltip for buffer's encoding

[Chong Yidong]

> In "emacs -Q", move the mouse pointer to the mnemonic of
> buffer-file-coding-system, and wait for the tooltip to pop up.  The
> tooltip text should be:
>
>   Buffer coding systme (multi-byte): CODING
>   mouse-1: describe coding system
>
> (I say "MS-Windows" above only because I cannot test this in a GUI
> session on a Unix or GNU system where I'm typing this, so I don't know
> whether the same problem happens on other platforms.)

A slightly different version of this bug seems to occur on GNU/Linux.
The first time the tooltip appears, only the first line is shown.  But
if you move the mouse away and move it back, the second line is also
shown when the tooltip reappears.

bug#2423: 23.0.90; Incomplete text in tooltip for buffer's encoding

[Juanma Barranquero]

> But on MS-Windows, if CODING is iso-latin-N-dos (for any N that is a
> single digit), the second line is not shown; instead, there's an empty
> line.  Changing the buffer's encoding to something different, like
> utf-8 or cyrillic-iso-8bit-dos, or even iso-latin-10-dos or
> iso-latin-1-unix, makes the second line reappear.  Changing back to
> iso-latin-[1-9]-dos makes the text of second line disappear again.
>
> It looks like the problem is somehow related to the length of the
> first line's text.

Yes.

Another example is the mnemonic for writable/read-only in
`mode-line-modified'. With "writable" I get a tooltip with "Buffer is
writable" plus an empty line. Just adding a space to the first line of
"Buffer is %s\nmouse-1 toggles" makes it work again.

    Juanma