bug#23246: 25.0.92; Local face-remapping-alist doesn't affect tooltips

[Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com>]

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On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 6:35 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > From: Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com>
> > Cc: 23246@debbugs.gnu.org
> > Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2016 17:06:01 -0300
> >
> > Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> >
> > > Why did you expect them to be blue?  Tooltips are special frames that
> > > don't display any buffer, whereas face-remap-add-relative is
> > > documented as affecting only the buffer that was current at the time
> > > it was called.
> >
> > Sorry, to me it wasn't obvious that tooltips are different frames.
>
> I've added to the ELisp manual some documentation about that, which
> makes it clear these are frames.
>
> > I want to change the way tooltips are displayed in a major-mode I'm
> > writing. I don't want to change this face globally for the user, only
> > change it in the buffers where this major-mode is active.
> >
> > I understand that might not be possible, in which case feel free to
> > close.
>
> I think you can achieve that by putting your own hook function on the
> tooltip-functions list.
>
> Let me know if there's anything else to do about this bug report.
>

No, I think we can close this. Thanks for the help.
And thanks to martin too. `x-show-tip' just might work.

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