bug#7691: 24.0.50; x-popup-menu with keymap - :help keyword

[Jason Rumney]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> But put the pointer over item `Foo' in the menu and you will not see the
>> :help displayed.  This is true also if `tooltip-mode' is off (the help
>> does not show in the minibuffer/echo area).
>
> Looks like a bug, indeed.  Might be a very longstanding one.
> It's probably some missing code somewhere.


IIRC it is not possible to display tooltips while popup menus are
displayed on Windows, as creating the tooltip involves Windows messages
to the same thread that the popup menu is blocking. But the help message
should be displayed in the minibuffer.