Re: Better default values for tooltip padding and `tooltip-hide-delay'?

[Richard M. Stallman]

    > If a substantial number of people find them annoying on the text
    > in Ediff mode, we could do a number of things:
    >
    > 1. Eliminate the help-echo properties on parts of diff hunks in
    > Ediff mode.
    >
    > 2. Set it up so that they only appear for the first 4 times
    > that the mouse is above such text in any given Ediff mode buffer.
    > (That way, they would be helpful, but once the user has seen
    > them a few times, they will get out of the way.)
    >
    > #2 would require some C code, but it won't be very hard C code, so
    > that is not a major reason not to do this.

    I would prefer the first solution, as I think that the meaning of the
    font locking is quite obvious. I wouldn't want to see them the first 4
    times each time I use ediff (if I understood you correctly) -- then I
    would want to turn off tooltip-mode in ediff-mode only.

This leads me to ask two questions:

1. What do others think?  Does (nearly) everyone agree it would be
better to get rid of these tooltips?  If so, let's do it.

2. What would you think if it were even less frequent?
For instance, in each Emacs session it would show the tooltip
only 4 times.