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Subject: Re: Better default values for tooltip padding and
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Frank Schmidt wrote:

   Tooltip are for me normally over point, and therefore over the text
   most recently written, hiding it. I need it to go away to see what I
   wrote last so I can continue there.

That problem completely goes away if you set tooltip-mode to nil.
And you still get exactly the same info in the echo area (which many
people do not seem to be aware of).

Sincerely,

Luc.