bug#37628: Inconsistent display of help-echo between minibuffer and tooltips

[Stefan Kangas]

close 37628 28.1
thanks

Clément Pit-Claudel <cpitclaudel@gmail.com> writes:

> This is a follow-up 
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2019-10/msg00090.html.
>
> Help-echo strings are not displayed consistently by show_help_echo (in 
> keyboard.c) and display-local-help (in help-at-pt.el): in tooltips, 
> substitute-command-keys is called on the help-echo string before passing it 
> to show-help-function, but help-at-pt doesn't perform any substitutions 
> before calling the function.
>
> To reproduce, (insert (propertize "test" 'help-echo "\\[forward-char]")), 
> then press C-h . (which displays \[forward-char]) or hover over the inserted 
> text with your mouse (which displays C-f).

I've fixed this on master in commit f3b85cd0cb.

I've also posted a followup bug here:

    https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=43070

I'm therefore closing this bug report.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas