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

[Po Lu]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> This can be countermanded by using a variant of tooltip-face that
> doesn't specify the variable-pitch inheritance.
>
> In general, though, the text should have the same typeface as the
> region you are dragging, right?  IOW, if the region you are dragging
> uses variable-pitch, the tooltip should use that as well.

Yes.  But in most cases the user will be dragging text, which in Emacs
is typically fixed-pitch.

> I would suggest refactoring tooltip-show and possibly the 'tooltip'
> face as well, so that use of the variable-pitch attribute could be
> controlled by the caller if the tooltips are used for something other
> than their original goal.

I will look into that.  Adding a FACE argument to `tooltip-show' that
specifies the face to use for the tooltip text and colors instead of
hard-coding `tooltip' could work neatly, I think.