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From: Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com>
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Subject: Balloon Help vs Help Echo
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Per Abrahamsen writes:
 > Why does balllon help and help echo use different properties?  It
 > seems wasteful (and poor design) to specify the same information
 > twice.  Instead, there should be a user option specifying where the
 > help messages should be displayed (ballon, echo area, both).

Disagree.  The strings need not be the same.  The help-echo
property can be used for quick one line help (since the message
appears immediately), and balloon-help can be used for
arbitrarily long help strings.  (See VM's toolbar buttons for
instance.)

On the practical side, I used a different property for
balloon-help because of dired's uninspired used of help-echo.

 > Unrelated question: Why are the balloons named
 > "xclock:*balloon-help*"?

Hack.  Before popup frames were implemented, using "xclock" as a
frame name would often get you a frame with no window manager
decorations.

