Re: Inline completion preview

[Po Lu]

Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev> writes:

> The GUI-only users are free to install company-posframe, with similar
> benefits. It's not in GNU ELPA, though: still collecting the last
> copyright assignment signature.

I hope I'm not interrupting, but the free time to follow these
discussions with hasn't come by me as of late.

There are several shortcomings to child frames as they stand: when a
child frame is displayed, the manner in which focus is transferred
between frames becomes erratic; each frame occupies plenty of memory,
reconfiguring such frames is slow, and particular operations possible
with regular frames cannot be performed on child frames under specific
window systems (such as PGTK, where restacking child frames after their
creation is forbidden).

It's better if Emacs didn't incorporate any code or documentation
encouraging users to make use of child frames until such time as the
aforementioned deficiencies are resolved.