RE: tooltip-use-echo-area disappeared

[Nick Roberts]

address@hidden writes:

 > 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?

Setting tooltip-use-echo-area to t meant that normal (and GUD) tooltip
strings were displayed in the echo area i.e not really as tooltips.
They can now be displayed there independently. For GUD tooltips set
gud-tooltip-echo-area to t. For normal (help) tooltips, just turn
tooltip-mode off.

 > The biggest problem for me is that Emacs is jumping to the top of the
 > z-order whenever the message comes up.

What is the z-order?

Nick