> I'm not sure that you've followed the whole thread. > > I can never follow the whole of such a thread. I don't have time! > > The feature of being > able to display help messages and GUD variable values in the echo area > has *not* been removed. On the other hand, the variable > tooltip-use-echo-area has been made obsolete because it involves an > ugly hack that intertwines the code in tooltip.el and gud.el. > > I must be confused. If that feature exists, doesn't tooltip-use-echo-area > control whether to enable it?
That is one way, but not the only one. I suggest that we leave it as obsolete - that doesn't mean it has to go, just that we don't have to feel guilty if we do remove it. Nick _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel