Re: Latest master broken on Cocoa/NS

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 07/15/2016 04:35 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> I'm completely unfamiliar with this code so can't say anything
> intelligent about that change (and don't have any opinion whether it's
> good or not).

Same here, but...

> But it does ring a bell here: for company-mode's popup menus, we'd want
> to be able to create non-toolkit popup frames, even if Emacs was built
> with support for toolkit popup frames.

We also want to be able to show multiple popup frames simultaneously. 
Avoiding global variables seems like a good change in this regard.