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.