Re: Window configurations

[Lennart Borgman]

On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 4:01 PM, martin rudalics <address@hidden> wrote:
>> How about adding that to the trunk?
>
> We could add something like that eventually.  However, I suppose that
> most people would like to see the tooltip frame at the right of `point'
> in some otherwise blank space of the screen.

Does not this very much depend on the purpose of the tooltip?

>   This means that I probably
> should be able to format argument lists and doc-strings vertically.
> And, interaction with the mouse cursor would have to be evaluated too.
>
> Also, tooltips currently have quite a number of annoying features which
> must be corrected first.

Maybe a topmost frame is not the best frame style. I
suppose "transient-for" (on w32 "owned") is better. This was discussed
a bit in the thread below:

  http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/124334