Re: Window configurations

[Kevin Rodgers]

martin rudalics wrote:
>  > The point of set-window-configuration-from-sexp is to restore the
>  > configuration of windows, not to duplicate the functionality of 
> desktop.el.
>
> That's true from a theoretical point of view.  It separates concerns in
> a clear way and gives clean semantics.  Hence I fully agree with you.
>
> Unfortunately, in personal practice, I'm suffering from a quite similar
> problem.  In particular, I display eldoc output on a per-window basis in
> a one-line window below the code window (I hate eldoc output in the echo
> area, I don't like it in the header line, and I very much hate tooltips.
> Ideally, there would be a bottom-line right above the mode-line where I
> could put it, but ...).

Have you tried displaying a tooltip in that position, by let-binding
tooltip-frame-parameters around the call to tooltip-show?

,----[ C-h f tooltip-show RET ]
| tooltip-show is a compiled Lisp function in `tooltip.el'.
| (tooltip-show text &optional use-echo-area)
|
| Show a tooltip window displaying text.
|
| Text larger than `x-max-tooltip-size' is clipped.
|
| If the alist in `tooltip-frame-parameters' includes `left' and `top'
| parameters, they determine the x and y position where the tooltip
| is displayed.  Otherwise, the tooltip pops at offsets specified by
| `tooltip-x-offset' and `tooltip-y-offset' from the current mouse
| position.
|
| Optional second arg use-echo-area non-nil means to show tooltip
| in echo area.
|
| [back]
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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA