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| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> | 2006-04-18 21:23:12 +0000 |
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| committer | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> | 2006-04-18 21:23:12 +0000 |
| commit | 42cc79e684548e45d17038be38aded09b889b25a (patch) | |
| tree | 4d6bb646d44547a3d02e5e0ad31a03d7555bc20a /lisp/tooltip.el | |
| parent | 98639288c8eaff279787d862490fd136fc1ec284 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-42cc79e684548e45d17038be38aded09b889b25a.tar.gz | |
(tooltip-mode, tooltip-use-echo-area): Doc fixes.
Diffstat (limited to 'lisp/tooltip.el')
| -rw-r--r-- | lisp/tooltip.el | 16 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/tooltip.el b/lisp/tooltip.el index 8dc811c09e6..cacd6f59670 100644 --- a/lisp/tooltip.el +++ b/lisp/tooltip.el @@ -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 @@ position to pop up the tooltip." :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) |