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Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

> The description of `show-help-function' says that Tooltip mode provides
> an example.  Where is a user supposed to find this example?  Is she
> supposed to look at the code defining `tooltip-mode'?
>
> Also, this text is a bit misleading because it says:
>
>  Tooltip mode (*note (emacs)Tooltips::) provides an example.
>
> That could easily be misread as saying that node `Tooltips' of the Emacs
> manual provides the example, instead of (what it does say) that Tooltip
> mode provides the example (but how/where?).

I've now clarified that the example is in the code of tooltip-mode.

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