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* tooltip-mode shouldn't be enabled in the Linux console by default
@ 2009-04-26 11:04 Nick Roberts
  2009-04-26 17:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
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  0 siblings, 3 replies; 10+ messages in thread
From: Nick Roberts @ 2009-04-26 11:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-devel


For Emacs in CVS, tooltip-mode is enabled by default for text-only terminals.
The file tooltip.el says this:

  ;; Even if we start on a text-only terminal, make this non-nil by
  ;; default because we can open a graphical frame later (multi-tty).

I think this is wrong because, in the Linux console with gpm, every time the
mouse moves over a region with a help-echo property, in the mini-buffer, you
get the error message:

 Error while displaying tooltip: (error Non-X frame used)

before the help text appears.

Presumably if a multi-tty user chooses to open a graphical frame, he
can enable tooltip-mode if he wishes.  Or maybe it is possible to distinguish
between the Linux console and a text-only terminal on a graphical terminal,
e.g xterm on X11 where gpm is not available.

-- 
Nick                                           http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob




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2009-04-26 11:04 tooltip-mode shouldn't be enabled in the Linux console by default Nick Roberts
2009-04-26 17:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-04-26 18:24 ` Glenn Morris
2009-04-27  4:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-04-27 18:47   ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-04-28  2:18     ` Chong Yidong
2009-04-28  7:57       ` Nick Roberts
2009-04-28  8:36         ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-04-28 13:45         ` Chong Yidong
2009-04-29  7:22           ` Nick Roberts

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