Re: "Final" version of tty child frames

[martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>]

 > There's something in the C code that makes this branch not work with
 > the mini-frame package
 > (https://github.com/muffinmad/emacs-mini-frame). The package works
 > fine in graphical mode.

IIUC I use something similar to the mini-frame package and it's already
quite hairy to make the minibuffer frame pop up and automatically get
input focus.  The input focus thing will be hard to implement on ttys.

 > I'm using posframe for iteration. There's a minor thing where the
 > cursor position is inconsistent when at the end of a line with a
 > posframe on it in the tty. Maybe that's intentional? It's kinda
 > confusing to me.

Is the cursor in the normal window or in the posframe window?

 > There's also a major thing where I can click on the child frame in the
 > tty and then my cursor is actually in the child frame and I can just
 > alter the text there. That behavior is inconsistent with the behavior
 > on graphical displays and something I can investigate.

Do you mean that you do _not_ want to alter text in the child frame?

If you have the time, please also try to look into two issues I raised
earlier:

   Two further things I noticed: When point in the parent frame is
   effectively hidden by the child frame, its cursor sometimes appears at
   the right of the child frame and sometimes it's not shown.  I have not
   understood the underlying principle for this behavior.  Also when the
   selected region in the parent frame is active, its overlay covers the
   child frame.  That's ugly.

martin