RE: tooltip-use-echo-area disappeared

[jasonr]

It appears to have been moved from tooltip.el where it was preloaded, to gud.el,
so if gud is not loaded it has as good as disappeared.

I don't understand this decision. Why is this now considered a gud specific
feature? It was formerly a user option to have messages appear in the echo area
rather than as a tooltip. What is gud specific about that?

I haven't tracked down which code is using it, but I suspect it is somewhere
inside semantic or jdee, run from a timer. The biggest problem for me is that
Emacs is jumping to the top of the z-order whenever the message comes up.


Quoting Nick Roberts <address@hidden>:

>  > 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  <address@hidden>
>  >
>  >     * 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
>