>> > I think this is intentional. Changing the height of the echo area >> > as you move the mouse would be rather unpleasant. >> > >> > It could combine the tooltip string lines, and display as much text as >> > will fit in the echo area. Would that be better? >> >> If this is intentional, the documentation for tooltip-mode should be >> changed (as well as the info page on tooltips).
> I rather think it's a bug. We already change the height of the echo > area when a multi-line string is displayed there, so I don't see any > reason to avoid that for help echo. IIRC the miniwindow used to resize for tooltips and it was changed specifically because it was found to be annoying. I.e. it's a feature. Stefan _______________________________________________ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug