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> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2013 09:30:14 -0400
> 
> it might be interesting to change icomplete.el such that it can
> display the completions using a tooltip frame

Yuck!  Tooltip frames are ugly, especially if they are large.

Why not pop up a GUI dialog instead?  We already show File Chooser in
some situations.