bug#52994: 29.0.50; Help descriptions from menu bar items don't appear in the echo area

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org> writes:

> You're right, I don't expect tooltips to appear for menu items and I'm
> not sure whether it's even possible to update the Emacs frame while
> the menus are open.

Right.  Perhaps there should be a setting to emulate the action of
tooltip-mode off when using the menus only?  In other words, an option
to display the menu bar help texts in the echo area.

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