From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nick Roberts Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: tooltip-use-echo-area disappeared Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 21:25:31 +1200 Message-ID: <17054.53387.737275.879063@farnswood.snap.net.nz> References: <429EBEBF.4080005@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1117705421 18143 80.91.229.2 (2 Jun 2005 09:43:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 09:43:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 02 11:43:33 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DdmCz-0001zY-83 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Jun 2005 11:41:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DdmIS-0004xv-3S for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Jun 2005 05:47:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ddlzg-00059w-Nj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jun 2005 05:28:05 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ddlzf-00058e-0D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jun 2005 05:28:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ddlzd-00056j-UO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jun 2005 05:28:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [202.37.101.8] (helo=viper.snap.net.nz) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Ddly0-0005Wu-TT; Thu, 02 Jun 2005 05:26:21 -0400 Original-Received: from farnswood.snap.net.nz (p108-tnt2.snap.net.nz [202.124.108.108]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C37E538056; Thu, 2 Jun 2005 21:24:01 +1200 (NZST) Original-Received: by farnswood.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 501) id 3F67662A99; Thu, 2 Jun 2005 10:25:33 +0100 (BST) Original-To: Jason Rumney In-Reply-To: <429EBEBF.4080005@gnu.org> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.0.50.64 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:38040 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:38040 > The following change seems to have removed the important variable > tooltip-use-echo-area, with no apparent replacement. > Besides breaking lisp code that was written for 21.1, I don't recall any > discussion about why this feature should be deprecated. > > > > 2005-04-20 Nick Roberts > > * tooltip.el (tooltip-use-echo-area): Replace as alias and deprecate. > It *was* discussed at great length on emacs-devel. It has *not* been removed but has an alias: gud-tooltip-echo-area. Normal tooltips and GUD tooltips have been split, the code for the latter now resides in gud.el. The new behaviour is documented in the Emacs Manual. It is also described in NEWS. Why is tooltip-use-echo-area so important? What code does it break? Nick