Re: master 5743b74d4b 1/2: Improve mouse dragging

[Po Lu]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> I'm not sure I understand.  Do you remember the details of tis
> interference?  If not, can you reimplement this using tooltip-show and
> string copying, and tell what problems that yields?  I really don't
> want to have the tricky code that sets up colors in tooltip-show to be
> in more than one place, it's a maintenance problem waiting to happen.

The immediate problem is that the tooltip contents get displayed in a
proportional font, which makes no sense when dragging monospace text.

IIRC there was also a problem involving `tooltip-hide-delay' and
help-echo events, but I don't remember the details of that well enough
to reproduce it.

Thanks.