Mercurial > emacs
changeset 70099:7ab0f5013dfb
(tooltip-mode, tooltip-use-echo-area): Doc fixes.
| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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| date | Tue, 18 Apr 2006 21:23:12 +0000 |
| parents | bd71e8bcb103 |
| children | 1694af098666 |
| files | lisp/tooltip.el |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/lisp/tooltip.el Tue Apr 18 21:22:33 2006 +0000 +++ b/lisp/tooltip.el Tue Apr 18 21:23:12 2006 +0000 @@ -47,11 +47,15 @@ ;; would be accompanied by a full redisplay. (define-minor-mode tooltip-mode - "Toggle Tooltip display. -With ARG, turn tooltip mode on if and only if ARG is positive. + "Toggle Tooltip mode. +With ARG, turn Tooltip mode on if and only if ARG is positive. When this minor mode is enabled, Emacs displays help text -in a pop-up window on mouse-over. When it is disabled, -Emacs displays the help text in the echo area instead." +in a pop-up window for buttons and menu items that you put the mouse on. +\(However, if `tooltip-use-echo-area' is non-nil, this and +all pop-up help appears in the echo area.) + +When Tooltip mode is disabled, Emacs displays one line of +the help text in the echo area, and does not make a pop-up window." :global t :init-value (not (or noninteractive emacs-basic-display @@ -142,7 +146,9 @@ :group 'basic-faces) (defcustom tooltip-use-echo-area nil - "Use the echo area instead of tooltip frames for help and GUD tooltips." + "Use the echo area instead of tooltip frames for help and GUD tooltips. +To display multi-line help text in the echo area, set this to t +and enable `tooltip-mode'." :type 'boolean :group 'tooltip)