>> > 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


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