Tool tooltips are missing!? Where did they go?

I’ve used Blender for a very long time; coming back now, and I swear on any true religion that when I used the knife tool or any other such tool there was a text tooltip at like the top or bottom of the 3D viewport. This tooltip would read something like “z to cut through” and “e to start a new cut”. In similar fashion any tool I used would provide these helpful tips as to hotkeys providing additional function. I have tooltips enabled in my preferences.

What happened? Where did they go?

By Buddha or Mohamed or Saint Peter and the Virgin Mary, I miss them! I don’t like going to the wiki several times a day. I’m sure I’ll memorize them again but still…

Nevermind, it seems that I had the status bar hidden ;o
Pulled it up from the bottom of the screen

Nice that you found the problem and especially also showed it here.

Yes… you can “drag it way” and/but also disable/enable it via: Windows → Show Status Bar.